Invisibilidade social e produção do espaço subordinado em Belém (PA)

Abstract

The historical difficulties of integrating environmental logic and urban planning have upheld practices of social and environmental exclusion in the urban expansion of Belém, to the extent that new spatial and social arrangements have ‘naturalized’ environmental changes that affect low-income social groups from the floodplains (caboclos and riparian). By re-examining the expansion of Belém we discover in the production of the city a progressive disarticulation of man, his ways of life and biophysical bases, where the suppression of vegetation, constructive densification and the location of rivers contaminated