THE “LAGO IGAPÓ” IN LONDRINA – PR: A READING OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF PRODUCING THE AREA OF THE CITY

Abstract

The work presents some ideas and elements to reflect concerning the production of city spaces. Our bigger interest in knowing and studying relevants aspects on the city if drift of the fact of being a place where it is to the biggest parcel of the population, also being evidenced the biggest numbers of capital investments and more, this, is the main space where it occurs the social conflicts. A priori we must work with the reflection on the nature of the space. Being this space a system of artificial objects increasingly populated by systems of actions also steeped in artificiality, and increasingly designed for purposes other than the place and its inhabitants. The quarrels presented here relate to the production of city spaces, that the production and reproduction of social relations in a given time and space and its main producers. Also observing the city as a product / commodity to understand how the process of valuing the many forms of urban land. And as an example of production of urban space bring "Lago Igapó" in Londrina-PR which presents itself as a leisure area and the spaces around them are valued because of the different forms of production, occupation and ownership of the area of "Lago Igapó" and its adjacencies. As the occupation of which the main and recovery processes encountered by new forms of housing in the production of lots, condominiums are they horizontal or vertical in this area of the city of Londrina-PR.