Dinâmica espacial de Santa Cruz-RN: uma análise considerando os dois circuitos da economia urbana.

Abstract

The analysis of the urbanization process allows inferences about the uneven and, at the same time, concentrating and centralizing how the phenomenon takes place around the world. The organization of urban space in underdeveloped countries takes place from different uses of the territory triggered by the actions of various social agents. The city of Santa Cruz, in recent years, has shown a change in its urban context, as regards the condition of the regional center and the different uses to which the various agents, hegemonic and non-hegemonic, make the city space. In this context, we analyze the current dynamics of the city of Santa Cruz considering the two circuits of the urban economy. For that to happen, the study was conducted by means of literature, on the Brazilian urbanization, space banal and the two circuits of the urban economy in underdeveloped countries, as well as research into statistical data about the population and economy of Santa Cruz. Furthermore, we conducted field research, with semi-structured questionnaires to triggering agents of these circuits in order to know their importance to the dynamicircuito superior of the space in question, and in locus observations and photographic records of this dynamic. Thus, we conclude that the urban space of Santa Cruz is a banal space used by both hegemonic agents (usually, responsible for the upper circuit of the urban economy) and by non-hegemonic (members, commonly, the lower circuit), which, in coexistence constitute the current dynamics of Santa Cruz and, consequently, strengthen its status as a regional center of Mesoregion Agreste Potiguar, with a radius of influence that covers municipalities in Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.