Coastal Resorts and Urbanization in Northeast Brazil

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN. The objective is to study the processes of urbanization associated with maritime leisure. In the first chapter, the reader will find a historical and conceptual presentation highlighting the relevance of leisure practices, their forms-flows and their role in the formation of maritime resorts. The second chapter analyses the context of the northeastern region of Brazil and demonstrates the process of modernization and formation of the seaside function within the cities, and later, in the maritime metropolises of the region. The relationship between urbanization and touristic real estate ventures is the central theme of the third chapter, which proposes a specific methodology for studies of this nature. The final chapter presents the seaside resorts in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza, a case study similar to others in the Northeast, examining the urbanistic effects and the key ideas of the planners.

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Chapter 01. THE URBAN, SPAS AND MARITIME VILEGIATURA

Vilegiatura and its urban nature

The beach and leisure stays, from the nineteenth and twentieth century

Coastal metropolises and real estate for vilegiatura: massification in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

CHAPTER 02. THE METROPOLISES GROW TOWARDS THE SEA, NORTHEAST OF BRAZIL

Cities become coastal: urbanization moves towards the beach

The dawn of the process of coastal metropolization, twentieth and twenty-first century

Metropolitan spatialities of tourism and second homes

CHAPTER 03. COASTAL METROPOLITIZATION AND TOURIST REAL ESTATE

Maritime vilegiatura and its urban dimension

Northeast of Brazil

Urban Morphology: property, urbanism and norms

CHAPTER 04. THE SOCIAL AND URBANISTIC EFFECTS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS IN FORTALEZA, BRAZIL.

The occupation of the coast and the critique of urban projects

Local public power: between technique and politics

The residents of the beach and their conceptions

CONCLUSION