A configuração da área central de Manaus e sua dinâmica recente

Abstract

This search aims to understand the current configuration of Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil) central region and its importance in the context of the West Amazon transformations. Specifically, it aims to identify the sectors that characterize this region as well to analyze the reasons that have generated the transformations or have reinforced the persistence of business and services activities in each sector. Search implementation was based on several information sources, that involved either bibliographic and local investigation. Nevertheless, survey and mapping 260 blocks top-soil was the basis for identifying the limits and the internal characteristics in each sector of Central Region. From the internal differentiation it was found out the spatial processes diversity, the functional intensity degree and the central activities patterns. This fact has configured Manaus Central Region in four heterogeneous sectors with an own dynamic in its functional activities. With the implement in the business and services activities decentralization processes in the nineties, it was verified a modification either in the business structure as in the internal configuration and dynamic in the functional occupation of Central Region. It was also changed the meaning of centrality as it was conceived by the elites, the middle classes, the low status populations as well the merchants in the Amazon State countryside. This process has rebounded in the valorization of residential regions in the city periphery as well in the changing of real estate market focus, that turned to the high status population. Concerning to the “crisis” in the Central Region, it was verified that, in truth, there is an activity restructuring process in the Central Region nodule and in some center peripheral regions in the center.