Tempo e espaço: o direito à cidade e sua relação com o envelhecimento da classe trabalhadora em Palmas/TO de 2010 a 2019

Abstract

The main purpose of the research presented herein is to analyse the existing relation between the ageing of the working class and possibilities for establishing the Right to the City, with the city of Palmas, capital of the Brazilian state of Tocantins, as the object of study. It makes use of the regressive-progressive method developed by Henri Lefebvre, which is grounded on the dialectical materialist analysis of the develoment of History. For this reason, the main discussions about the theme of the Right to the City that can contribute to studies on the ageing of the working class are presented initially on the research's development, as well as the identification of the elderly population's demands in regard to the urban space. Such identification was achieved by analysing minutes of meetings of the National, State and City Elder Rights Boards, using content analysis. Next, Palmas's urban planning was studied in order to understand its relations to those demands and the capitalist process of production of the urban space. Thus, the research proposes actions to meet the most urgent demands in the city of Palmas, taking into account the limitations and possibilities contained in the struggle for the Right to the City for creating a city that is just and meets age-related demands.