TY - JOUR AU - Teixiera, Vanessa Moura de Lacerda AU - Soares Pereira, Cláudio Smalley AU - Silva, Cleiton Ferreira da PY - 2022 TI - SOCIAL DIVISION OF SPACE AND SOCIO-SPATIAL FRAGMENTATION JF - Mercator; Vol 21 (2022) DO - 10.4215/rm2022.e21015 KW - N2 - This paper addresses the production of urban space in Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte State, through an analysis that articulates the social division of space and socio-spatial fragmentation. The hypothesis is that, in the context of contemporary urbanization, the fragmentary urban logic plays a significant role in structuring and restructuring urban spaces. The center-periphery contradiction is redefined, associated with the production of new spaces for consumption and the profusion of popular housing forms and closed residential spaces. For this, the mapping and cross-referencing data from these same spaces, the forms of habitation and, consequently, interviews with inhabitants, were fundamental for the analysis So, this article highlights the study of socio-spatial fragmentation as an expressive possibility to understand contemporary Brazilian urbanization. It concludes on spatial practices and the appropriation of space as a fundamental element to understand the fragmentation process in Brazilian medium-sized cities. Keywords : Sociospatial Fragmentation, Urban Centrality, Social and Territorial Division of Labour, Mossoró, Brazil. UR - http://www.mercator.ufc.br/mercator/article/view/e21015