O MAPA DA CIDADE: O PAPEL DAS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS E SUA RELAÇÕES COM O CRESCIMENTO URBANO DA CIDADE DE CAMPINA GRANDE PB

Abstract

The development of a city has a direct connection to its origin, localization and economic vocation, but the acceleration or the delay of its development depends the state-owned politics applieds in the city. The city of Campina Grande origin comes from a village localized in a junction of four importants highways in Paraíba state, so its economic vocation since its foudantion was commerce. The research tries to identify the state-owned politics applieds in the city of Campina Grande and measure the contribution of these politics to the urban expansion. The more significative state-owned politics applied in the development of the city in all its history was mapped, while was being a temporal cartography of the urban evolution. There are identified five periods relationed to the urban expansion where the state-owned politics has accelereted or delayed the increase of the city. The first one is relationed to a federal railway transportation state-owned politic. The second period is about a municipal politic of urbanization. Third involves a municipal politic of industrial development. The fourth treats the state-owned politics applieds during the military government, and the last period relates the redemocratization period of the country. The cartographic reconstitution of the city illustrates the state-owned politics relation to the urban increase. This reconstitution made by historic documentation resulted in a city chart of the final of each period. The conclusion points that the state-owned politics contributed more to delay than to accelerate the increase of Campina Grande city.