%0 Journal Article %T SEGREGA O SOCIOESPACIAL E O DIREITO ¨¤ NATUREZA URBANA NA CIDADE DE MANAUS %A Estevan BARTOLI %J Revista ACTA Geogr¨˘fica %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Roraima %X The recent process of implantation of enclosed housing estates in the style of low level condominiums in the Tarum district of Manaus causes a lack of access to the margins of the river Tarum due to the continuing existence of glebes belonging to a small number of landowners. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that the laws at different levels (national, state and municipal) contradict the local reality, which through the over tolerant powers that be contribute to the occurrence of illegal actions related to the unequal appropriation of urban nature which becomes linked to the status of this type of plot. The next step was to show how the creation of the Environmental Protection Area (EPA) and the ¨˘guas do Gigante Private Reserve of the Natural Patrimony (PRNP) collaborate to the rise in the value of these enclosed housing estates that are being implanted in the area. We concluded that the EPA is being implemented too late in relation to the accentuation of the social-spatial segregation and the privatization of natural attributes in vogue, and the implementation of the PRNP becomes a valuable reserve and a restrictive element for the Alphaville because the locals will have their visiting rights and rights of use regulated and limited by the developers. %K socio-spatial segregation %K Environmental Preservation Area %K Private Reserve of the Natural Patrimony %U http://revista.ufrr.br/index.php/actageo/article/view/528/670