BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN THE SÃO CARLOS’ CITY EVOLUTION

Abstract

This text discusses general historical aspects that has influenced the formation of the conditions of intra-urban accessibility, as an attempt to interpret the essence of the value of the urban lot of the city of São Carlos - SP. It was tried to group space elements to explain why São Carlos is developing itself in the place where it is and how the value of the land has been, since the beginning, associated with the accessibility to a convergent center. The growth of the agglomeration has been marked for several trends. So, it is not sufficient to interpret the statistics of the census data. It is necessary to analyze and to understand how and why the pattern of distribution of wealth and poverty has been established throughout urban land. The local geography has influenced directly on the processes of intra-urban arrangement, considering even favorable and negative natural aspects of the territory. The natural aspects are important; however, they are not decisive for the value of the urban lot. The city, as human product, has its own logic of valuation.