The urbanization process has been present since ancient times, intensifying with the industrialization
process in the 18th century and in Brazil from the mid-19th century on. In the Amazônia this process
occurred from the 1960s with transformations that deeply impacted its territories. Contemporarily, with
the process of metropolization, beyond a phase of urban development, these territories are increasingly
affected by the interests of capital, especially with regard to production and housing conditions, where
part of the population lives in degrading conditions and in constant socio-spatial vulnerability, as occurs
in the municipality of Ananindeua-PA, a city that makes up the metropolitan region of Belém-PA and that
is affected by it in all its structural changes. In this sense, we present the following central problem: How
the process of metropolization, such as the actions of the State (land title regularization and the
implementation project of the Liberdade Highway) in addition to the expansion of the land market in the
metropolitan space of Belém has been interfering in the conditions of socio-spatial vulnerability
(infrastructure and housing) of the southern portion of Ananindeua territory between the years 2020 and
2022. The main objective of this work is to analyze how the metropolization process, the actions of the
State (land title regularization and the implementation project of the Liberdade Highway) and the
expansion of the land market in the metropolitan space of Belém have been interfering in the conditions
of socio-spatial vulnerability (infrastructure and housing) of the southern portion of Ananindeua's
territory between the years 2020 and 2022. In the present work we will use the historical and dialectical
materialism method, because it focuses on the materiality of the history of men in society. The research is
quantitative and qualitative, where the first makes a quantification of the data on the growth of the
population of the municipality, especially of its southern portion, and the second, makes a survey of
qualitative data, which obtains the description about the neighborhoods of the southern portion of
Ananindeua and its urban growth over conservation units and territories of traditional Amazonian
communities. The analysis is inter-scalar that considers the time and space of urban relations. It counts on
a systematic observation of the study area and the application of questionnaires, in addition to the
cartographic production showing the advance of urbanization in the southern part of Ananindeua. This
work is justified from a theoretical and methodological point of view by the need to understand the new
territorial dynamics, in the conditions of infrastructure and housing, from the metropolitan expansion
present in the southern portion of Ananindeua. From a theoretical and practical point of view, this work
has the relevance of contributing to subsidize public actions and the construction of the right to territory.
The present work showed us that the housing conditions in the southern part of Ananindeua are the result
of the unequal process of metropolization where some parts of the population live with a good
infrastructure in detriment of the majority of the population who live without the minimum conditions of
basic sanitation. Added to this, the work showed us that the southern population of Ananindeu has the
constant territorial conflicts of traditional communities that are there in the face of urban expansion.
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