Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThiagoTA.pdf: 2130025 bytes, checksum: 8ccd7b2261e9356656e981c03245fb9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-29 / The Metropolitan Region of Natal, like other metropolitan regions in Brazil, was marked by intense and rapid urbanization of the country occurred only in the second half of the twentieth century, coinciding with the process of consolidation of the industry in the country, resulting in serious urban social problems, such as the increase in slums, lack of infrastructure and this increase in violence in urban centers. When enters the reality of the metropolitan region, assessing the impacts of restructuring productive in the context of globalization, analyzing how the socio-economic factors influencing the dynamic of the population, whose configuration was shown to be contradictory according to social class busy. Accordingly, we studied the demographic configuration of the Metropolitan Region of Natal, analyzing their spatial distribution and their socio-demographic differences in light of building a type socio-space, which cuts the metropolitan space in homogeneous areas / A Regi?o Metropolitana de Natal, como as demais regi?es metropolitanas brasileiras, foi marcada pela intensa e acelerada urbaniza??o do pa?s ocorrida somente na segunda metade do s?culo XX, coincidindo com o processo de consolida??o da ind?stria do pa?s, resultando em s?rios problemas sociais urbanos, como o aumento das favelas, a falta de infra-estrutura e o aumento da viol?ncia presente nos centros urbanos. Ao adentramos a realidade da Regi?o Metropolitana, aferimos os impactos da reestrutura??o produtiva, no contexto da globaliza??o, analisando de que forma os aspectos socioecon?micos influenciam os fatores din?micos da popula??o, cuja configura??o mostrou-se contradit?ria de acordo com a classe social ocupada. Nesse sentido, estudamos a configura??o demogr?fica da Regi?o Metropolitana de Natal, analisando sua distribui??o espacial e suas diferen?as sociodemogr?ficas a luz da constru??o de uma tipologia socioespacial, que recorta o espa?o metropolitano em ?reas homog?neas