Urbanização, reestruturação urbana e mudanças na organização espacial da cidade de Lajeado na região do Vale do Taquari-RS.

Abstract

Urban restructuring is related to global economy changes when there are constant technological and productive changes. Those changes have been responsible for modifications in the productions systems and the dynamics of capital accumulation and when there are reflexes in the cities urbanization, in different scales. This relation between economy and the city and its results is the foundation of this study which aims to analyze the consequences of this interaction between the city of Lajeado and Vale do Taquari region in Rio Grande do Sul. This city is placed as a local pole and influences other local towns as well as it experiments the reflexes of the local economy. Those relations have influenced changes in the urban configuration and the structural way of urban mesh of Lajeado, resulted from the recent dynamics of the state market and the actions and relations among other agents of the urban area. This work was structured in three parts in order to analyze recent processes and the restructuring of urbanization in Lajeado and its relation with the local development in Vale do Taquari. First we set a system of important concepts for the understanding of this study, followed by the presentation of social, economic and demographic datas which define Lajeado as a local pole. In the third and last part, we analyze the typology of new state products: horizontal condominiums, which became the main structure built for living in the urban restructuring of Lajeado, acting as changing agents, its strategies and ways of acting.