O DIREITO À CIDADE NO ESPAÇO URBANO: O DESAFIO NO DESLOCAMENTO POR TRANSPORTE PÚBLICO (ÔNIBUS) E POR TRANSPORTE ALTERNATIVO (TÁXI-LOTAÇÃO) EM BOA VISTA-RR.

The right to the city in urban space: the challenge in traveling by public transport (bus) and alternative transport (taxi-lotation) in Boa Vista-RR

Abstract

The social relations that are established in the city influence in its socio-spatial formation process, as well as in its production process. The city attracts people, investments, trades, businesses and these relationships are also responsible for the space production process. The capitalist logic that reproduces in the city accompanied by the logic of the real estate market ends up directly influencing the process of uneven socio-spatial formation of the city. It can be said that these are the main factors that influence the deepening of socio- spatial segregation, directing investments in areas of greater potential for the development of capitalist activities to the detriment of others, considered less "profitable" from the point of view of speculative capital. Thus, the city becomes increasingly fragmented, commodified, and the production of space, increasingly necessary for the reproduction of capital. In this sense, the struggle for the right to the city is guided by the overcoming of private property of urban space, so that the city can be seen as a work and understood as use value. In this context, the purpose of this article is to analyze the dynamics of the collective transport of Boa Vista, composed of public transport – bus – and alternative transportation – taxi-lotation – and the right to the city to its users. In order to achieve these objectives, it was necessary to collect bibliographical data on the production of urban space, public transportation and the right to the city, as well as analyzes of maps and maps of the city's public transport, questionnaires with users of public transportation and interviews with public agencies, bus companies and taxi-lotation cooperative.