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The aim of this paper is to discuss the inseparable transversality of certain factors that shape the madperson's profile today. In this sense, we first consider the city and the urbanization processes led by the modern capitalist system as the socio-spatial framework in which misery and madness emerged en masse as permanent phenomena. In periphery countries, such as Brazil, which were colonized by the world capitalist system based on the slavery of the African workforce, madness persisted throughout the ages as a disease of the black and poor. At present, when the Brazilian urbanization rate approaches 90% and coincides with the structural crisis of the system, we observe that blacks are mostly concentrated in the dense peripheries of cities, with the worst indicators of housing, employment, income, education, and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the processualities lived in Manaus (AM), focusing on the housing and living conditions of indigenous people. It seeks to identify how they fit in the urban space to guarantee their reproduction, in the process of social inequality that marks the capitalist city. Data from the Census 2010/IBGE is used. In Manaus, the inclusion of indigenous people occurs in areas not valued by capitalism, characterized by the absence of housing conditions, with little or no supply of basic goods and services. With regard to employment and income, they remain in domestic activities of low payment and formalization. It's established the need to guarantee the right to the city for the indigenous people, through public policies that promote the breakdown of both its invisibilization and the logic of commodification prevalent in urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussions on the terms city, urban and medium sized city, with a view to proposing criteria which, considering the specificities of the urban network of Bahia, allow to identify their medium-sized cities. Certainly because it deals, at the same time, of a theoretical debate and a mapping exercise, here does not dissipate the subject at hand. With this paper we intend to establish a starting point for the posterior elaboration of deepening studies about this question and give account of the singularities of these cities. It is understood though its results may provide of subsidies to similar researches to be conducted in other states. This work finds itself divided into four parts, and a brief introduction. Initially, we presented some ideas and concepts, made by different authors, about city and its relationship with urbanization due to industrialization. The second topic was realized a reflection of the theme medium-sized city, which reviews questions related to population size as a principle for their identification, characteristics and roles. Based on these considerations and analysis of some of the peculiarities of the urban network of state, proposed a set of basic criterions to see which of their municipal seats would be so categorized. Finally, we had woven additional discussions on this subject, highlighting the importance of studying it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]