Migração, urbanização e periferias: memórias da formação do bairro Vila Real em Chapecó-SC (1973-1999)

Abstract

The research proposal is to analyze migration, organization and the periphery, through the formation of the Vila Real neighborhood, located in the northeast region of Chapecó city, SC, through the memories of local residents, of the process of transformation in the landscape arising from the occupation and urbanization of the area, having as sources, biographies, newspapers, pamphlets and testimonies described in previous works. For this, it was adopted, as the main time frame to describe the period of 1973, with the displacement of the brothels that were closer to the central area of the city, until the year 1999, when the subdivision officially became the Vila Real neighborhood, through Law No. 4017, of August 20, 1999. The text presents details of the urban formation of Chapecó, the displacements of the poor population to new peripheral spaces and the urban growth with the subdivisions, to shelter the population coming from the regional migration. The place, which was created from the displacement of the brothels to that space, in the 1970s, gives the place the code name “Céu Azul”. The occupation through subdivisions took place in 1982 and, during that decade it was intensified through the attraction of poor migrants. The neighborhood was characterized by being an undervalued space due to the presence of brothels, the absence of public authorities, lack of basic services such as water, electricity, transport, paved streets and others. . The residents obtained improvements from 1989, when the place became a subdivision, which integrates the Líder neighborhood. The memories were expressed through changes in the landscape, through spaces of sociability, interaction and difficulties faced by these residents. The characteristic features of these changes in the landscape are also addressed, through modifications, occupations, actions affecting the subdivisions and improvements in the neighborhood, which leads the place to be currently inserted in the urban space of Chapecó, no longer being a peripheral space.