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The economic restructuring that characterizes the current historical period also affects the agricultural sector and results in diffusion of globalized agribusiness in Brazil. Such processes are at the heart of the explanation of many new Socio-spatial dynamics and are responsible for restructuring the agricultural area, urban and regional in various parts of the country. As a result, we could highlight: the increase of the density-technical-scientific informational in agriculture space; new distribution of productive functions by territory; diffusion of productive specializations; intensification of social and territorial division relations work; new relations field-city; intensification of urbanization of society and of the territory; urban and city redevelopment etc. The main objective of this text is to put for debate some of the main themes and processes that are at the basis of the analysis of new forms of use and occupation of the Brazilian territory from the globalized diffusion of agribusiness, considering that this is one of the main vectors of (re)production of space in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the production of gated communities in the city of Macapá - capital of Amapá State - as part of urban restructuring that has been reaching medium cities of Amazon in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It understands that gated communities, with a set of modernizing source objects, such as shopping center, luxury hotels, new cinema halls, vertical buildings, playhouse auditoriums, represent the new content of the region medium cities urbanization. Even if the construction of gated communities in Macapá has been, on the beginning, the only choice that middle class - above all the one associated to public sector - found for access to housing, nowadays these communities assume a new socio-spatial content and are presented as part of the urban restructuring that has been reaching brazilian medium cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]