NEIGHBORHOOD IN SMALL CITIES: BESIDES IDENTITY, THE CONFLICT

Abstract

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2016.16483

This paper discusses the coexistence relationships in small cities. It starts from a construction, the neighborhood, in its different senses and how that complex construction, sometimes, become an important space to people living there because they identifies and recognizes the resident, besides contributing to isolate and stigmatize other residents considered different, both for economical or, in a less comprehensible way, for the individual being a new coming resident of another neighborhood or another city. The settle down conflicts are of different orders, but not less violent than situations lived in larger cities. The non acceptance of a new resident is an aggression to the right to go and come of every citizen and sends to a question told by Armando Correa da Silva (1986), when we refer to the neighborhood or the city, “who’s the place’s owner?