Urbanization, cities and the urban environment

Abstract

This text has the objective of approaching the urban environment from a point of view that is not restricted to the preservation/protection of "nature" and the environmental resources, but considers the environment constructed by the appropriation and production of the urban areas and the environment. The concern here presented is to entail the environmental and urban problem through the habitational questions, of the urban growth through the expansion of the peripheries. The urban environmental approach, in an integrated perspective of the social and spatial complexity, allows the surpassing of an analysis purely political of the role of the State in the reproduction and crisis of the city, to comprehend the production of social relations in the terms of present urbanization and introduces the production of degradation of the environment in the core of the discussion of the geographic space apprehended in the appropriation that the every-day experience goes through

Keywords

• Urbanization
• Cities
• Urban Environment
• Space Production
• Periphery