A RODOVIA WASHINGTON LUÍS E AS TRANSFORMAÇÕES NO ESPAÇO DE DUQUE DE CAXIAS.

This paper presents some transformations that have arisen with the construction of Washington Luis highway (the BR 040), which cuts most of the suburbs of Duque de Caxias, as well as the interaction of the surrounding population, with those changes. Through analysis of newspaper reports of the year 1950 (inauguration of the highway) and 2013, based on the writings of Henri Lefebvre, along with interviews of local residents are being studied social and physical space in this region, and the same is currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]