Produção do espaço urbano em Barra Mansa, RJ: um olhar sobre a paisagem

Abstract

This research addresses the theme of transformation and production of urban and peri-urban space in Barra Mansa, municipality of Rio de Janeiro, whose strategic location between the two largest Brazilian metropolises favored the implementation of industrial activities that had an economic, socio-spatial and environmental impact on the region. Located in the Paraíba Valley, its history is linked to the golden period and the sugar and coffee slave labor, dairy farming in the 19th century, and industrialization in the 20th century with the installation of the Volta Redonda steel industry, during the Vargas period, causing several socio-spatial impacts in the region. The cross-scale and empirical research, seeks a sensitive reading of the Barra-Mansense territory, through the analysis of the transformation of its landscapes and territorialities, using as a method the delimitation of the morpho-territorial units and the type-morphological analysis, focusing on cutouts spatial areas of the municipality, which enables a more comprehensive understanding of the processes and dynamics of the evolution of urban and peri-urban space and the public and private agents and actors that directed them, encompassing the physical-spatial aspects and the specificities of the territory. The research also intends to contribute to urban planning responsive to local demands and balanced urban development.