O estudo da interface rural/urbana e o novo ruralismo no Brasil: do Vale do Paraibuna ao bairro Joazal

Abstract

This study sought to first conduct a study on the conceptual landscape concept, one of the traditional categories of analysis of geography. For this, resorted to epistemological analysis of how the concept was used throughout the history of geographical science, from the classical period to the present. A special emphasis is given to addressing the humanistic school of geography, one that deepened in most geographical studies employing the landscape as a way of understanding society constructs, perceives and considers the elements that make up the geographical space. It was also not forgotten the contribution of the critical school, because all the natural landscape will be transformed by human action, producing and reproducing new landscapes. Through the concept landscape, was selected for analysis a phenomenon quite traditional in geographical studies, transition and interrelation between the rural and the urban space, one of the most noticeable changes landscape of the land surface. Issue within the rural / urban is focused on the phenomenon of the new rurality, yet little studied in the geographical environment, analyzing move back to the values of rural society by the inhabitants of the city. A case study was conducted in the Zona da Mata Mining, highlighting the Valley Paraibuna and the location rural / urban Joazal, which sought to identify the characteristics of the region and place this interface.