Resumen:
This article focuses on the relationship between service activities and work market in Recife (Brasil), searching for social and spatial development. Service activities have increased a lot during the last twelve years; moreover, these activities have been understood by society as an opportunity to find a work and or an occupation, searching for their social and spatial mobility. On the other hand, the local elites promote the idea of spatial actions in the city, in order to create the ilusion of development never happens due to local developing conditions. That's why we have to think in another urban policy for working in the city; conditions sine quanon it cannot promote the development
