Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-01-23T14:32:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseliaCarvalhoDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 3928125 bytes, checksum: 0bbfff12dcac909ca31b3fd04d95aef8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-01-25T12:04:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseliaCarvalhoDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 3928125 bytes, checksum: 0bbfff12dcac909ca31b3fd04d95aef8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-25T12:04:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseliaCarvalhoDeAraujo_TESE.pdf: 3928125 bytes, checksum: 0bbfff12dcac909ca31b3fd04d95aef8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-10 / Este trabalho versa sobre a natureza da centralidade urbana em Natal. Apresenta como pressuposto de tese que a natureza da centralidade urbana ? diversa em seus conte?dos, processos e formas, por ser o espa?o urbano permeado por igual diversidade. Objetiva explicitar a natureza da centralidade urbana em Natal, considerando os conte?dos, processos e formas que a constituem, bem como os fatores concorrentes para a sua diversifica??o. Para atingir o objetivo estabelecido, orienta-se pela teoria da produ??o do espa?o, de Henri Lefebvre, buscando apreender os processos que v?m se desencadeando no contexto urbano de Natal, desde a d?cada de 1980 ? atualidade, sob uma perspectiva dial?tica. Como aux?lio ? leitura da realidade, baseia-se em importantes aportes te?ricos atinentes ? tem?tica da centralidade urbana, espa?o urbano e economia terci?ria; n?o descuidando da produ??o acad?mica sobre a tem?tica, e sobre a Cidade do Natal, do exame a documentos que tamb?m tratam da hist?ria da referida cidade, arquivos oficiais junto a ?rg?os p?blicos, bancos de dados, pesquisa de campo, entrevistas junto a gestores p?blicos e l?deres de organiza??es da sociedade civil organizada. Como resultado do processo investigativo, explicita que a natureza da centralidade urbana em Natal ? diversa e multic?ntrica. Diversa, por terem sido reveladas v?rias dimens?es de centralidade, em conformidade com a natureza dos seus conte?dos: hist?rica, cultural, simb?lica, ideol?gica e econ?mica; sendo a dimens?o econ?mica da centralidade urbana proeminente no espa?o urbano, e estando a mesma permeada junto ?s demais, dado que a cidade ? lugar de trocas, onde o fator econ?mico se faz proeminente, e preside a produ??o do espa?o urbano. Multic?ntrica, pelos v?rios centros urbanos que v?m se conformando desde a forma??o do N?cleo do Centro hist?rico de Natal ? atualidade, com as novas centralidades, decorrentes do processo de expans?o do terci?rio moderno na cidade. / This paper deals with the nature of urban centrality in Natal. It presents as a thesis assumption that the nature of urban centrality is diverse in its contents, processes and forms, since it is the urban space permeated by equal diversity. It aims to explain the nature of urban centrality in Natal, considering the contents, processes and forms that constitute it, as well as the factors competing for its diversification. In order to reach the established goal, Henri Lefebvre's theory of Space Production seeks to understand the processes that have been unfolding in the urban context of Natal, from the 1980s to the present, from a dialectical perspective. It is as an aid to the reading of reality, it is based on important theoretical contributions concerning the theme of urban centrality, urban space and tertiary economy; it?s not neglecting the academic production on the subject, and on the City of Natal, from examining documents that also deal with the history of the city, official files with public agencies, databases, field research, interviews with public managers and leaders of organized civil society organizations. As a result of the investigative process, he explains that the nature of urban centrality in Natal is diverse and multicentric. Diverse, for having been revealed several dimensions of centrality, according to the nature of its contents: historical, cultural, symbolic, ideological and economic; It?s being the economic dimension of urban centrality prominent in urban space, and being permeated with the others, given that the city is a place of exchanges, in which the economic one becomes prominent, and presides over the production of the urban space. Multicentric, by the various urban centers that have been conforming since the formation of the nucleus of the historical center of Natal to the present, with the new centralities, resulting from the process of expansion of the modern tertiary in the city.