A INTEGRAÇÃO DE CHAPADA DOS GUIMARÃES À DINÂMICA METROPOLITANA

Abstract

The exponential increase in the population of Chapada dos Guimarães since the 1980s has implied a significant expansion of the urban area of the city, wich was not accompanied by basic sanitation infraestructure and public policies for the integration of the population into the labour market. This situation has resulted in an increase in the vulnerable population whitout access to housing, a factor aggravated by problems of lacking of land regularization. Socioeconomic disparities and difficulty in accessing housing, have exacerbated territorial conflicts, leading the most impoverished population to occupy land in the suburban area of the municipality. In 2016 Chapada dos Guimarães was incorporated into the metropolitan region of The Cuiaba River Valley, however, the integration of this municipality into the metropolitan dynamics through the exploration of natural resources, tourism and real estate expansion, precedes the institutionalitization of this region. The present work seeks to study the origins of this integration process and discuss the contradictions and socio-spatial conflcts that arise in Chapada and are due to the metropolization phenomenon.

KEYWORDS: Chapada dos Guimarães; Metropolization, Residual Modernization, land conflicts, socio-spatial segregation.