The study of the urban transformation of Cotia, located in the periphery of the metropolis, aims the documentation of the region urban development, starting on the 18 century, and its analysis, taking São Paulo city as reference. This analysis was elaborated from the social-economics and spatial relations of the urban development, from the city adequation to the metropolitan area planning, from the linearity that the Raposo Tavares highway imposes to the urban composition and the

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... of the middle-class residence condominiums determined to the territory. Induced, Cotia has splitted, and started to tell two stories that shouldn't be parallel, what worsened the discriminatory process among the different income groups. The inventory of the condominiums, the closeds residencies nuclei and the land divisions, the reading of the social exclusion and the critic to the ruling planning were fundamental to the making of this work.