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GOT, Revista de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território

 ISSN 2182-1267

SOARES, Karen    CORDOVIL, Fabíola. The frontier of expansion of capital as conditioning for the production of urban irregularity: multiscale analysis of the performance of the Housing Company of Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil. []. , 18, pp.153-178. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2019.18.007.

Between the 1990s and 2000s, the period of the financialization of the economy in Brazil, Brazilian public housing policies had their effects evidenced in outbreaks of irregularity, peripheral to the urban network, lacking basic infrastructure networks, such as in the municipality’s headquarters of Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil, which was part of the frontier region of capital expansion in the south of the country from the 1930s. A methodological approach is used in a multiscale dimension on documentary sources to highlight the Company’s performance landscape Municipal Housing Corporation of Cascavel - COHAVEL, a public company with economic purposes, responsible for the promotion of irregular subdivisions, directed to the low income population, from its creation, until it’s dismantling in 2010.

: Irregularity Production; Irregular Settlements; Financialization; Territory; Cascavel/PR.

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