Morfologia urbana, qualidade de vida e ambiental em assentamentos espontâneos : o caso do bairro São José - João Pessoa - PB / Urban morphology, life and environmental quality in spontaneous settlements: the study case of São José district, in João Pessoa

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

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The inexorable progression and accelerated rhythm of urbanization in cities, make questionable the adequate relationship man physical environment. Thus, the urban scenario reflects an urbanistic process regardless of the consequences with public space, respect for the natural biodiversity and houses fit for human habitation. The lack of an urban policy aiming to solve such problems, generates an uncontrollable occupation process, that is sometimes established at risky and environmentally fragile locales (river banks, hillsides, foothills etc.), that eventually interfere in the life quality of the human population as a whole. Despite to be recognized as an urban district, in agreement with a classification based on urban morphology category and its variables in the context of a city, the spontaneous settlements of São José resembles a slum. Seeking for measures to change this situation, mainly with respect to popular housing and their consequences, it is aimed here: (i) to analyze the settlement by assuming the slum as a component of the urban morphology unit, though it is considered here the pre-existing conditions of the dwellers modus vivendi, their cultural identity and an environment with all sort of problems; (ii) to propose alternatives conducting to low-cost and satisfactory public housing, born of morpho-spatial concepts with social inclusion adequate socially, spatially, and environmentally to existing forms of the spontaneous settlement studied here; (iii) to redesign and reorganize their territory making possible to promote social integration and local collective living, that will help the revitalization process. Besides all these premises, it is necessary that in the administration policy, people be considered active participants in the multi-sector city planning and management, which are important preconditions for urban environmental sustainability of the polis. These well planned and articulated actions, when jointly applied, will certainly help to find a good urban performance in the study area, as well as the harmony expected between the ecological and the social biodiversity. The work concludes with an urbanististic multidimensional plan for the district, pointing paths that break the urban iniquity and partner-space segregation process in urbe

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qualidade de vida assentamentos espontâneos slum morfologia urbana environmental problems arquitetura e urbanismo urbanism meio ambiente settlement quality of life

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