URBAN EXPANSION AND PUBLIC SERVICES SPATIAL REORGANIZATION: ANALYSIS UPON THE CITY OF TERESINA

Abstract

Urban expansion often implies the need to redistribute places where public services are provided, which has a direct impact on users’ lives, especially with regard to access to theses services. In this text, I examine the process of urban reorganization of public services of legal nature that were operated in Teresina - PI in 2016-2021, aiming to find if theses changes would have been useful to the users or if, on the contrary, it would imply difficulties in accessing these services, resulting, in the end, in limitations in access to justice by the local population. The research was structured in a qualitative method and took as sources documents published on the investigated services’ websites, as well as satellite images collected from the internet. The research results suggest that the reorganization of legal nature public services from downtown areas to suburban areas, low flow of public transport lines, can harden the access to these services, and, specifically, access to justice for the poorest population.