SEGREGAÇÃO SOCIOESPACIAL EM SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO/SP: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO URBANO

Abstract

São José do Rio Preto is a city that has in its history a production of space
marked by inequalities. Despite being founded in the 19th century, it was only in the 20th
century that it began to play an important role in the state of São Paulo, especially after
the arrival of the railway in the region in 1912. Its first official urban planning policy it was
implemented in the 1950s, leaving signs of a separation between the regions occupied by
the more and less wealthy classes. This practice of agents producing space – especially
capital and the State – was maintained throughout the following decades, worsening the
separation and placing segregation as a content in the production of urban space in Rio
Preto. Thus, our objective in this article is to analyze the influences of these agents on the
becoming of this city, which transformed the urban landscape into a mosaic organized in
areas occupied by the poorest city dwellers, the middle class and the local elite. In this city, even the least attentive people can notice that there is an evident disparity, a
segregation that denies the urban area as a meeting place.
KEYWORDS: São José do Rio Preto; State; Segregation; Capital.