O Paradoxo da Fragmentariedade Urbana em Uberlândia/MG: Granja Marileusa e Élisson Prieto

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to map the current state of affairs of Brazilian cities through the study of two neighborhoods from Uberlândia/MG: Granja Marileusa and Élisson Prieto. The research process and the analysis of objects are “maps” of objectivities and subjectivities. “Cartography” here is used in the same sense as Deleuze and Guattari came up with, as in, making “maps” out of the analysis of the “assemblages” on the “territories” producing reality as it is, therefore making the “machinic” movements of such a “cartography” visible. Both neighborhoods are situated on the east sector of the city, and they both produce and are produced by “landscapes” and “faces” which are very different from each other, implying in not only distinct, but paradoxical machinations on the same reality of a city which has as a key characteristic the urban fragmentation, considering that Granja Marileusa is a planned neighborhood under the slogan “to live, to work, to do business and innovation”, and the neighborhood of Élisson Prieto developed from the squatter occupation at the roadside of BR-050 that came to be as the Ocupação do Gloria. Thus, the research begins with a more comprehensive contextualization of Brazil, tracing the main lines of contemporary urban processes. Subsequently, the same thing happens, but now on the city of Uberlândia, and, in order to do so, two stories are told, one of the city’s businessman and their progress, and another of the margins, all those that become “leftovers”. In the end, both stories, respectively, end up arriving at Granja Marileusa and Élisson Prieto. Therefore, the research proposes to “map” the paradoxes of urban fragmentation, through the cartography of the urban processes in the neighborhoods, potentializing a reality that is more linked to life in itself than to capitalistic production.