Commodity City: The case of Horizontal Gated Communities in the Municipality of Rondonópolis-MT

This article proposes to analyze the urban phenomena resulting from implementation of horizontal gated communities, located in municipality Rondonopolis-MT. Its high commercial value, characterized as speculative, demonstrates sale city a commodity consolidated soil municipality. The socioeconomic development of/in cities occurs unevenly through interventions, socio-spatial and socio-economic inequalities produced reproduced spatially. Thus, understanding structure real estate speculation appropriation public space, segregation, gentrification, spreading fortified enclosure existing city's communitiess, which makes evident contradictions disparities medium-sized with strong support agribusiness region.