Estudo da expansão urbana na cidade de Nhamundá

Abstract

The present research had the purpose of studying and analyzing the urban expansion processes that took place in Nhamundá. Nhamundá, as well as other cities in the Amazon, are experiencing a growth caused by social, political, economic and environmental factors, called the urban geographic factor, together with the producing and consuming agents of urban space in Nhamundá, In the city. Therefore, to understand the process of urban expansion of Nhamundá it was necessary to describe and analyze the dynamics of the process of appropriation and privatization of space. The migratory flows of the riverbank population (rural area) to the city contributed to the urban expansion of Nhamundá, constituting peripheral places of the city, thus creating neighborhoods, and other factors, such as work, education and so on. The process of urban expansion of the city of Nhamundá can be considered an accelerated process, since its dismemberment from the city of Parintins to the present day, the city developed significantly, after 29 years since its establishment as a city, was endowed with urban attributes, There was a school, a hospital, a city hall, a chamber, a forum, an airport and a pavement of the existing streets, constituting and structuring the center of the city, already equipped with urban equipment essential for economic, political and social dynamics. In this sense, the objective was to analyze the process of growth of the city from its creation to the present day, from the constructions and creations. The research was qualitative explanatory, having as a method the dialectic, to understand the whole and then understand the parts of the urban expansion of Nhamundá, There was a documentary survey in public agencies; City council, forum, historical books and parish records, materials that record some data from the city of Nhamundá, interviews with the city's ancient residents and satellite images, photographic images, data from IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ).