Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosEF_DISSERT.pdf: 3448724 bytes, checksum: 5e204d609ada7e26f1a3ce0d50184ad4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-22 / This research arose from the interest on the investigation about urban expansion from Caic?. Since its creation as a village and its ascent to the condition of city, but especially , the occurred expansion from the 70s, when the local cotton economy begins to present signs of exhaustion. The central theme of this work consists on the importance of the geographical events and its relations with the phenomenon of the urban expansion from Caic? that served us as empirical basis. In relation to the events, that appear as elements of analysis on the works from the Professor Milton Santos, especially on the book Nature of Space , they appear as a kind of urban extensors energizing the areas where are installed. Understood by us as a vehicle of one or more possibilities, according to Santos, (1999) we listed some events occurred in the caicoense urbs a nd we divided them into principal and derivative ones, such events implemented from their structures, forms and functions, through processes that resulted and still continue to result the enlargement of the caicoense urban perimeter , densifications enough important for this urban expansion. The technical periods of cattle raising , cotton, as well as the tertiary city and its connections with the role of fast men, as well as slow men is also important aspect in the body of this work. It is still pointed out the inequalities and the coexistences that are generated on the basis of these connections and finally we discussed the positive and negative consequences elapsed from the phenomenon of the urban expansion / Esta pesquisa surgiu a partir do interesse pela investiga??o acerca da expans?o urbana de Caic?, desde a sua forma??o, como vila, e a sua ascens?o ? condi??o de cidade, mas, especialmente, a expans?o ocorrida a partir dos anos de 1970, quando a economia algodoeira local come?a a apresentar sinais de esgotamento. O tema central, deste trabalho, consiste na import?ncia dos eventos geogr?ficos e suas rela??es com o fen?meno da expans?o urbana da cidade que nos serviu de base emp?rica. Com rela??o aos eventos que aparecem como elementos de an?lise nas obras do Professor Milton Santos, em especial, no livro Natureza do Espa?o, eles aparecem como uma esp?cie de extensores urbanos, dinamizando as ?reas onde s?o instalados. Entendidos, por n?s, como um ve?culo de uma ou mais possibilidades, conforme Santos (1999), elencamos alguns eventos ocorridos na urbe caicoense e os dividimos em principais e derivados. Tais eventos implementaram, a partir de suas estruturas, formas e fun??es, atrav?s de processos que desencadearam e continuam a desencadear o alargamento do per?metro urbano caicoense, adensamentos bastante importantes para essa expans?o urbana. Os per?odos t?cnicos da pecu?ria, do algod?o, como da cidade terci?ria e suas conex?es com o papel dos homens r?pidos, como dos homens lentos, ? tamb?m aspecto importante no corpo deste trabalho. Mereceram destaques, ainda, as desigualdades e as coexist?ncias que s?o geradas na base destas conex?es e, por fim, discutimos as consequ?ncias positivas e negativas decorridas do fen?meno da expans?o urbana