A cidade além da vila: uma análise sócio-urbana entre a periferia e o centro histórico da Cidade de Goiás

Abstract

Goiás, a small town, in the middle of the Cerrado goiano, inlaid in the Serra Dourada hills, has as main characteristic to have been the capital of the homonymous state for little more than two hundred years, throughout the Colony, Empire and First Republic periods. After the construction of the present state capital, Goiânia, and the transfer of its whole institutional apparatus, the city of Goiás faced a strong process of social and economic stagnation. In the same way, it had to deal with an intense urban expansion, motivated by the migratory and urbanization of brazilian population, that in thirty years completely altered the sedimented reality of that old mining settlement. One of these consequences was the disorderly expansion, vacant land formation and the settlement of districts far from the urban spot - which has aggravated the social urban segregation that came up since the first years of its formation. After obtaining the World Cultural Heritage title, the city faced increasing investments, that centered in the protected set, have promoted differed treatment and losses to the suburbian areas. With aim on understanding the processes of Goiás development through the twentieth century, the present research looks up the comprehension of the city, with a deeper reading of its intraurban reality and the social and urban segregations still ongoing.