Apropiação do espaço público pelo comércio ambulante: Fortaleza-Ceará-Brasil em evidência (1975 a 1995)

Authors

  • Eustógio Wanderley Correia Dantas

Keywords:

informal commerce, modernization, requalification

Abstract

Based on the comprehension of the relationship between city-urban and State-space, the present paper analysis the process of occupation of Fortaleza City (Capital of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil) down-town by  informal commerce between the years of 1975/1995. Working with this temporal-spatial scale, we discuss the action of the State in the organization and control of private appropriation of public space by informal workers, following political interventions of modernization and requalification of the this urban historical central area by municipal government.

Published

2007-03-02

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