Quando a urbanização gera exclusão e perda de privacidade: uma análise a partir do processo de urbanização no Bairro Polana Caniço, na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work analyzes the urbanization process in one of the districts of the city of Maputo. This subject has been discussed from two lines of approaches. The first analyzes the history of urbanization, and the second analyzes the daily process of urbanization. If for one On the one hand, this literature allows us to understand the history of urbanization and its day to day, on the other hand, it remains to understand the interactions and the ways they occur in the urbanization process. To analyze the interactions in the context of urbanization, I carried out an ethnographic study in the area that was previously called Polana Caniço and which recently gained a wall that separates the part that continues to be called Polana Caniço, which preserves the previous architecture marked by buildings of one floor, and the part called Sommerschield II, consists of buildings with more than one floor. The study data allow us to understand that in the analyzed place, the urbanization process caused an exclusion of the residents of the then “Polana Caniço” neighborhood who lost their land for the practice of agriculture and had habitual access to the neighborhood, for work or leisure, blocked . The data also allows us to understand that with the construction of houses with more than one floor, on the side of Sommerschield II, the residents of Polana Caniço experience a sense of loss of privacy since the residents of the buildings of Sommerschield II have access, from its windows and balconies, to the private part of the residents of “Polana Caniço”.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)