THE CITY’S SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION REFLECTED IN THE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: urbanization analysis of the city of Barra dos Coqueiros/SE

The segregation is a characteristic of the cities, especially of the capitalistis cities where larges social disparities are verify. The duality existing on the urban space built under a segregations process can be identifying under many perspectives, among them, the urban infrastructure offer. Thus, this research investigates the socio-spatial segregation process through the present interrelationship between the urban infrastructure and the population socioeconomics aspects, using as territorial cut the Sergipe’s city of Barra dos Coqueiros. The study was based on the choice of the variables present in the 1991, 2000 and 2010 demographic censuses that allowed the consistent analysis of the urban infrastructure offered to the households, being selected the data of water supply by general network, sanitary sewage by general network, garbage collection service and electricity service by distribution company. For the intersection between the urban infrastructure and the socioeconomic aspects of the population, the data on average income and education of the household heads are also used. Once spatialized through the elaboration of thematic maps, the data showed that, in general, the urban infrastructure of Barra dos Coqueiros is precarious, especially regarding sanitary sewage, which was not even available in 1991. Even so, it was possible to identify that the areas in the southeastern region of the city have a better infrastructure, and these are also where those responsible with higher average incomes and education are concentrated. The northeastern region, in it’s turn, in an antagonistic scenario, is characterized by a population with lower incomes and a low level of education that lives with an extremely reduced supply of infrastructure, with only two households, even in the last survey, attended by a sanitary sewage network. Thus, it is confirmed that the occupation of the territory of Barra dos Coqueiros occurs within a process of socio- spatial segregation that can be identified from the directly proportional relationship between the provision of urban infrastructure and the socioeconomic aspects of population.