Banca de DEFESA: Juliana de Souza e Silva Arrais

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Juliana de Souza e Silva Arrais
DATE: 31/08/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

The morphological mosaic: urban vitality in central areas (Goiânia, Brazil)

KEY WORDS:

Morphological Patterns, Spatial Configuration, Urban Vitality, Space Syntax, Centers

PAGES: 287
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

This thesis consists of an analysis of the relationship between morphology and vitality in functional centralities, measured by the patterns (features and relations) and flow of people movement (correlations) existing in public spaces. As a condition, the research considers the examination of planned centers in Brazilian cities, product of an orderly planning, choosing as object of study the city of Goiânia and its functional centers located in the central zone of the capital. The study presents a methodological proposal based mainly on the theoretical, methodological and tool aspects of the Theory of the Social Logic of Space or Space Syntax, in order to understand how society can be read through space and enable the evaluation of the urban system at different levels (Global and Local). However, other approaches pointed out in the literature review beyond Syntax are added, necessary for the understanding of the complexity that shapes the dynamics of public life in the centers. In this way, the applied methodology is constituted by 11 variables - which embrace configurational and non-configurational, geometric and topological categories - distributed by the structuring axes of the research "Morphological Patterns, Spatial Configuration and Urban Vitality". The thesis adopts the following research questions: 1) In what way does the orderly planning, through the reproduction of patterns in the urban system, affect the vitality of planned functional centers?; 2) What are the main variables that correlate with the vitality of planned functional centers considering centralities with different urban design patterns? and; 3) Do the patterns that promote the flow of people's movement work in a similar way for planned functional centers with regular layouts, regardless of whether they present simple or complex ("organic") geometric designs? These questions led to the formation of the hypothesis that orderly planning, as occurred in "planned" Brazilian cities like Goiânia, compromised the vitality of its planned functional centers, by simplifying the complex relationships that promote centralities in urban structures. The results solidify the role of orderly planning, from the reproduction of patterns, as a strategy that affects urban vitality, especially in functional centralities. That is because planning, by reproducing models that use simplified patterns and that reduce the necessary connections that make up the urban system, brings damage to the movement of pedestrians, reducing the flow of people on the streets, triggering processes of degradation of public spaces, especially in city centers.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ERIKA CRISTINE KNEIB - UFG
Interna - 2164530 - GABRIELA DE SOUZA TENORIO
Externo à Instituição - PATRICK DI ALMEIDA VIEIRA ZECHIN - UEG
Presidente - 1705690 - ROMULO JOSE DA COSTA RIBEIRO
Externa ao Programa - 1402220 - VANIA RAQUEL TELES LOUREIRO