The central object of the research that led to this thesis was to analyze the segregation effects that cause large urban projects on the living conditions in Amazonian cities of Belém and Manaus. Adopt the projections theoretical interpret urban dynamics as a product of capital accumulation and generates social apartheid, a perspective that allow compare of urban interventions in these two cities. In each of these cities large urban projects are being implemented. For purposes of this study the experiences of the Portal Project Amazon, in Belém city, Pará state, and Environmental Sanitation Program Streams of Manaus (PROSAMIM), in Manaus city, Amazonas state, were analyzed as the experiences of large urban projects in the Amazon Region. The theoretical and methodological had the contribution of the theories produced by the French Sociological School of reflections Anglo-Saxon and Brazil, allowing the construction of critical thinking about the logic that permeates the major urban projects in cities of the Amazon Region. To this chosen operating procedure of the type-quality quantitative, in primary and secondary data the main sources of information, materialized by historical documents, official statistics, direct observation and interviews with leaders of the movement in defense of the housing and urban reform, residents of areas affected directly and indirectly by the programs under study and agents of public bodies. The main results are that in Amazonian cities the process of urbanization has been occurring since the late nineteenth century with the advent of the economy gomífera, intensifying from the military coup of 1964 when they were strengthened processes of exploitation of natural resources and population density with consequent changes in physical-territorial Belem and Manaus cities. In recent years, the two cities are following the trend of globalization of capital, by adopting the large urban projects as the main strategy of urban renewal, with technical and financial support of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). Finally, these results showed segregation effects determined by the implementation of major urban projects, since the actions of compulsory displacement negatively impacted the living conditions and work of significant fractions of the working classes, making the law inaccessible to the City, both in Belém and Manaus.
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