Descrição
In the region of the Reconcavo of Bahia, medium and small cities, older centers of the urban and regional economy, after decades of economic stagnation and population decline, receive attention from the Govern through programs and action which intend to rescue the lost economic development for the new knots of the urban system in this region. In Cachoeira (32,252 inhabitants) Federal and State programs and actions, as the campus of the Federal University of Reconcavo of Bahia(Ministry of Education), the Monumenta Program (Ministry of the Culture) and the Project of Ethnic Tourism (Ministry of Tourism), involving a great amount of investments, are implementing in order to promote the urban reorganization, requalification and refunctionalization of the historical buildings, generation of income and job, through the incentive of services and commerce linked to the offer of higher education and the tourism. The new inhabitants, as well as the new students, who pass just hours in the city and generally possess greater income than the local population, are stimulating the increase of the values of rent and acquisition of housing. We find an important modification in the job structure and in the infrastructure of the city, bringing new functions and services. Processes of economic and social exclusion, as well the segregation of part of the local population, are evidenced. The oldest inhabitants are in the border of the new urban, social and economic development.||No Recôncavo Baiano cidades médias e pequenas, antigos centros da economia urbana e regional, após décadas de estagnação econômica e esvaziamento populacional recebem atenção do Estado através de programas e ações que visam resgatar o desenvolvimento econômico perdido para os novos nós da rede urbana desta região. Em Cachoeira (32.252 habitantes) programas e ações federais e estaduais, envolvendo uma grande quantidade de investimentos, estão sendo implementados na reestruturação urbana (requalificação e refuncionalização do casario histórico) e na geração de renda e emprego através do incentivo aos serviços e comércios ligados ao ensino superior e ao turismo, como o campus da recém criada Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (Ministério da Educação), o Programa Monumenta (Ministério da Cultura) e o Projeto de Turismo Étnico (Ministério do Turismo). Os novos moradores de Cachoeira, bem como os estudantes universitários que passam o dia na cidade, geralmente possuem maior renda e acabam levando a um aumento expressivo dos valores cobrados para aquisição e aluguel de imóveis. Há modificação na estrutura do emprego e na construção de infraestruturas para atender as novas funções e serviços. Constatamos processos de exclusão social/econômica e segregação de parte da população, que fica, assim, à margem do desenvolvimento socioeconômico que se pretende, além de ocasionar modificações profundas no cotidiano dos moradores.
Abstract
THE ROLE OF THE INSTALLATION OF UFRB, THE ACTION OF MONUMENTA PROGRAM AND THE ETHNIC TOURISM IN THE URBAN RESTRUCTURING AND EVERYDAY LIFE OF CACHOEIRA-BA
PRELIMINARY APPOINTMENTS OF RESEARCH
In the region of the Reconcavo of Bahia, medium and small cities, older centers of the urban and regional economy, after decades of economic stagnation and population decline, receive attention from the Govern through programs and action which intend to rescue the lost economic development for the new knots of the urban system in this region. In Cachoeira (32,252 inhabitants) Federal and State programs and actions, as the campus of the Federal University of Reconcavo of Bahia(Ministry of Education), the Monumenta Program (Ministry of the Culture) and the Project of Ethnic Tourism (Ministry of Tourism), involving a great amount of investments, are implementing in order to promote the urban reorganization, requalification and refunctionalization of the historical buildings, generation of income and job, through the incentive of services and commerce linked to the offer of higher education and the tourism. The new inhabitants, as well as the new students, who pass just hours in the city and generally possess greater income than the local population, are stimulating the increase of the values of rent and acquisition of housing. We find an important modification in the job structure and in the infrastructure of the city, bringing new functions and services. Processes of economic and social exclusion, as well the segregation of part of the local population, are evidenced. The oldest inhabitants are in the border of the new urban, social and economic development.
