The COVID-19 pandemic on a planetary scale has been the object of intense changes at the
global level, on multiple scales, reverberating dilemmas inherent to the conditions and social
practices that have been established throughout history. The escalation of the aforementioned
pandemic exposed a complex set of socio-spatial vulnerabilities linked to the unequal
insertion of the brazilian and amazonian territory in the technical and territorial division of
labor, as well as the precarious conditions of urban and health infrastructure, essential
elements for the fight against COVID-19. On a local scale, the population of the city of Belém
was deeply impacted by a mostly unfavorable conjuncture added to the pandemic, which
claimed thousands of lives. The high number of deaths in neighborhoods and territories on the
outskirts of Belém should be highlighted here, indicating different scales, movements, rates of
dispersion of COVID-19 and their possible links with levels of vulnerabilities and socio spatial inequalities, associated with accessibility to urban facilities, such as running water,
sanitary sewage and housing conditions in Belém. In view of the particularities of the spatial
condition of the city of Belém, this research is relevant due to the need to understand the
territorial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an interscalar movement in global and
national dimensions. The hypothesis is defended that the current dynamics related to the
territorial effects of COVID-19 are closely connected to the conditions of socio-spatial
vulnerability in the city. The research, therefore, consists of a case study that, from a
methodological point of view, will be carried out through a survey and bibliographic and
documental analysis, cartographic production, qualitative systematic observations, application
of survey and statistical analysis. Therefore, in that dissertation, the main elements of the
research developed are presented, as well as a propositional path based on the dynamics of
smartie cities for the consolidation of a sustainable city.
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