Produção do espaço e favelização no Rio de Janeiro, RJ: existe um lugar no Alto da Boa Vista

Abstract

The objective of this master's thesis was to investigate the process of space production, its conflicts and contradictions, the origins and, above all, the reasons that led to the expansion of the favelization process in Alto da Boa Vista, in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. To this end, we analyzed the favelas located along the Furnas Road, an area cut by the river that has the same name and is located on the southwest slope of the Tijuca Massif. From the consideration that the favela is one of the forms resulting from the process of (re)production of space in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, we seek to explain the rapid favelization of this area, which transformed the space with marked presence of ruralities into an area of precarious urbanization that continues to expand. Moreover, the work analyzed the extent to which the elements present in daily life, in the perception of the materiality produced and in the imagination of space, reinforce the feeling of belonging and valorization of the place, and how the participation of its inhabitants with regard to the right to the city took place.