O município “ornitorrinco”: Itaboraí a cidade sem asfalto

Abstract

This research is conditioned to understand the dynamics of the city, here anchored to the municipality of Itaboraí - Rio de Janeiro, linked to its present urban infrastructure conditions, between the years 2017 to 2021. And about the urban structure conditions of this municipality, we have as a research problem, 80.71% of its roads were unpaved, in addition to the installation of the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex in 2006 in this municipality, as the largest Petrobras enterprise. The imbalance between the advancement of the economic sector, and the backwardness of city structures, made us question their urban mobility so much, and we mobilized as systematic literature the idea of the “right to the city” linked to the discussion of the “capitalist production of space” and large projects. investment, as constituent elements of the urban logic of Itaboraí. Therefore, this work is part of a dialectical construction under a sui generis concept of development – seeking to point theory and methodology to a construction of intersection between data and theory. Methodologically, a theoretical and empirical analysis is constructed, considering a bibliographic survey, which points out the elements of Itaboraí; of data to trace the diagnosis of our research universe; documentary, focusing on sectors that discuss urban mobility, such as the National Urban Mobility Plan and the 2018 Itaboraí Master Plan; we have attached a brief ethnographic account of the author's experiences as a resident of Itaboraí; and we built a georeferential survey to illustrate the analyzed dynamics. The research results found were a city managed to make a city viable for large enterprises and not for people, where the 19.29% of paved roads exclude and segregate the residents of this municipality.