VERANEIO MARÍTIMO NA METRÓPOLE: o caso de Aquiraz, Ceará-Brasil

Abstract

The modern maritime practices, especially the summer vacations, represent new possibilities to comenear the society of the sea, highlighting the coastal area a priority for leisure and living of the populationsof major cities. This way, the growth urbanization process becomes a dialectically linked to the spreadof modern maritimidade. To understand this process, will be study the case of expansion of the summersea toward the coastal area of Aquiraz The point is to understand the influence of Metropolis in thedilution of the summer vacations sea in the space perceived as the coastline, highlights the areas ofbeach, entered the urban space of the metropolitan region of Fortaleza.People who summer vacation, the real estate business, and the public power municipal and state socialsubjects are involved in the process of creating an urban morphology discontinuous, characterized byurban division’s city and by clusters of second homes. There is, in these terms, to increase the value ofcoastal areas as condition to the expansion of the Metropolis.

Keywords

• Modern maritime practices
• coastal area
• growth urbanization process