Brick by Brick

Abstract

This study takes, as a background, the construction and use of synthetic indicators of different dimensions of the built and infrastructure environment for comparative and analytic purposes, characterizing, as a case of study, these two dimensions of Campinas Metropolitan Area (CMA) municipalities members. Several studies about the migration issue, especially those about the intra-metropolitan flows, indicate two major reasons for the act of migrating, they are: a) the labor market and b) the land and housing market. It´s over this second reason that this study will look more carefully. One of the first assumptions is that improvements in access to land / housing, as well as the increase of the intrinsic quality of the infrastructure of the metropolitan land (proximity to the relevant public facilities and equipaments, water supply, garbage collection and sewage, electricity, etc.), can be correlated with the direction of population flows to certain locations. In fact, the assumption adopted here is that services and infrastructure opportunities "direct", even indirectly, population flows from certain municipalities to another ones, given that they [these opportunities] have repercussions on the land and housing prices. In this sense, one of the principal objectives of the present paper is better understand the vector of urban expansion of the region. Thus, were used the Census data of 1991 and 2000, and also de data from a major thematic research called “Vulnerabilidade das Metrópoles Paulistas”.