| Summary: | Economic exploitation of the Brazilian coast for many years has generated a series of spatial changes, including extensive and dispersed urbanization. Medians cities on the coast are in most of cases seaside resorts which the holidays allotments represent the most built type of accommodation. This way of building the seaside cities of Brazil has been transformed its spatial characteristics, specially the land use. Traditional spaces as agricultural, fishing, salt extraction are converted on spaces for local and regional tourism, sometimes very closer to the protected zones.This article exposes the spatial dynamics, in terms of land use, in a city of 112,000 inhabitants of the Região dos Lagos, 100 kms away from the capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The analysis of the dynamics occurred after urban development, characterized by spatial dispersion and extension, mainly by traditional economic changes during 60 years, put in question the future of median cities of Brazilian coast, subjected to the land properties pressure.
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