As transformações do bairro de Madureira a partir da implantação da linha transcarioca - BRT

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the social transformations promoted on the Madureira district, as consequence of the implementation of the TransCarioca BRT (bus rapid transit) line. As such, we analyze the appropriation logic of the dynamics and production of space, towards the interests of capital, as well as the social relations engendered in the same space under the same logic. We consider that the insertion of the city of Rio de Janeiro in the orbit of world capital, namely from the promotion of the Mega Events - World Cup of 2014 and The 2016 Summer Olympics, affected the city in several angles. One of these transformations occurred through the public transport policy, which affected and transformed the city. The BRT is the biggest symbol of that set of changes. This motorway has successfully increased the value of some areas, whilst also being a detriment to other blocks, creating economically subordinated areas. We point it out some of the changes resulted from the implementation of the BRT, such as the reallocation of the residents, and the reification of the centralized logic behind the existent organization of the urban space. Therefore, we consider that the BRT implementation policy operates under the dictates of urban entrepreneurship, namely under the command of the optics of capital appreciation.