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The town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and its rich geographic history, can offer insight into the early history of the State of Louisiana and the establishment of the United States as a country, as well as the study of the formation of barrier islands and methods of land use with such areas. The following thesis presents a geographic, as well as a historical, analysis of Grand Isle’s history. It attempts to answer the following questions: What is the shape, form, and origin of the physical landscape of Grand Isle? How have humans interacted with the land and surrounding areas of Grand Isle? And what impacts, if any, have these interactions had on the island and its landscape? These questions include research into both the built environment and the natural environment.

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The marginalizing social economical process observed in Natal, a city located in the east coast part of Northeast region in Brazil and that owns a population upper to 778 thousand in habitants is nearly linked to the extension of goods and services commerce. The installation of new urban activities in the city pointed out tourist activity as the greater impulsive thing in the phenomenon promotion, most of them aiming to promote Natal to the national and international scenery. It privilege strongly in the South zone with economical implementations such as shopping s centers, supermarkets, and home buildings condominiums leading to a loss of functionality of some traditional district located in central areas of the city. Notwithstanding, some spaces, for instance Alecrim district officially created in 1911, has notably resisted to the expansion of the urban process pointed out in Natal in the last years. So that this put Alecrim District as a district with originally characteristics reaffirmed along the historical process form old times. The predominance of some residential characteristics such as the incidence of some villages and a concentration of a big and confuse popular commerce distributed along streets puts Alecrim District as a resistant space in Natal. The same way analyze Alecrim District under the prism of Historic Geography because we understand this way it accomplishes a fundamental role in the theoretical methodological development of our work, just when we analyze the time as a variant in our object of study. It is still inside this theoretical field that we carry out a brief reviewing about quarter/district definition, under the optic from several registered and scientific resources taken into account along this work, because we understand that it was necessary to think this important spatial unit especially to know exactly what we are referring to as a district and so we can reaffirm Alecrim as an important and traditional district to Natal and it has been resisting to spatial transformation verified in the last years in Natal city. To give support to our reflection we used methodological tools related to inhabitants lifestyles knowledge and also the study of Alecrim District as a space that promote a certain centrality in Natal as some indicators to keep original characteristics in the district in Natal / No limiar do s?culo XXI, a globaliza??o da economia mostra-se como um processo veloz atrav?s do qual o mercado se expande caracterizado por um intenso seguimento de internacionaliza??o do capital, concentrando e, por conseguinte, marginalizando a periferia dos espa?os sociais. Observa-se que esse processo, ocorrido nos pa?ses menos desenvolvidos, dar-se de maneira mais acentuada em vista principalmente da distribui??o de renda bastante regressiva e da insuficiente abrang?ncia dos programas sociais, situa??o encontrada em grande parte das cidades brasileiras. O processo de marginaliza??o socioecon?mica observado em Natal, cidade localizada no litoral da regi?o Nordeste do Brasil e que det?m de uma popula??o estimada em 778 mil habitantes, est? intimamente ligado ? extens?o do com?rcio de mercadorias e de servi?os. A instala??o de novos atributos urbanos na cidade, muitos destes destinados ? promo??o de Natal no cen?rio nacional e internacional, apontou a atividade tur?stica como a grande impulsionadora deste fen?meno, privilegiando, pungentemente, a zona Sul, com empreendimentos como shoppings, hipermercados e in?meros condom?nios residenciais, acarretando a perda da funcionalidade de alguns bairros tradicionais localizados em ?reas centrais da cidade. Entretanto, alguns espa?os, como, por exemplo, o bairro do Alecrim, criado oficialmente em 1911, tem resistido notadamente ao processo de expans?o urbana apontado nos ?ltimos anos em Natal, o que o coloca como um bairro de caracter?sticas originais remontadas ao longo de processos que v?m de um outro tempo hist?rico. A predomin?ncia de algumas caracter?sticas residenciais, como a incid?ncia de vilas e a concentra??o de um grande e confuso com?rcio popular distribu?do pelas suas ruas, o coloca como um espa?o de resist?ncia em Natal. Sendo assim, analisamos o Alecrim sob o prisma Geo-hist?rico, pois entendemos cumprir um fundamental papel no desenvolvimento te?rico-metodol?gico do nosso trabalho, quando analisamos a categoria tempo no objeto de estudo. Ainda dentro do campo te?rico, realizamos uma breve revis?o sobre a defini??o de bairro, sob a ?tica de diversas fontes cadastrais e cient?ficas resgatadas no decorrer deste trabalho, pois entendemos que era preciso pensar esta importante unidade espacial, sobretudo, para saber exatamente a que estamos nos referindo, para, assim, podermos reafirmar o Alecrim como um bairro tradicionalmente importante para Natal, uma vez que o mesmo vem resistindo ?s transforma??es socioespaciais verificadas nos ?ltimos anos na cidade. Para apoiar nossa reflex?o, utilizamos os instrumentos metodol?gicos, no que diz respeito ao conhecimento de vida do habitante, e o estudo do bairro do Alecrim como um espa?o que proporciona uma centralidade na cidade, como indicadores para a perman?ncia de caracter?sticas originais neste bairro de Natal