EXPANSION OF AIRPORT FACILITIES AND ITS IMPACTS: THE CASE OF VIRACOPOS, CAMPINAS, BRAZIL

Abstract

The present article has as an objective the analysis of the social and environmental aspects that involve the proposals of expansion of the airport of Viracopos, in Campinas, São Paulo. We aim, by means of research on urban politics, to understand the reality that involves the expansion of great airports enterprises in urban areas, specifically in this case. Given its
dimensions and implications, we try to establish the historical process of the city of Campinas and Viracopos airport, so that from this context we are able to analyze the diverse aspects that involve such design, with relations to urban management, environment, real estate speculation, economy and, finally, use and occupation of the land. As far as we are dealing with a case of national prominence and involving relations with the globalized world, this study analyses how it happens in the urban context and how it affects those relations. We thus search to understand this complex urban issue, in the case of the city of Campinas, and how the airport intervenes with public politics in local, regional and even on a national level.