The urban poverty spatial dimension: a morphological study in precarious settlements in the Brazilian Amazon
Precarious settlements, Brazilian Amazon cities, urban morphology, socio-spatial segregation, Space Syntax.
Starting from the identification of gaps in the understanding of informal settlements, especially regarding their spatiality, this research seeks to contribute to the field based on the morphological perspective. For that, a sample of urban structures inserted in the Brazilian Legal Amazon is investigated, interpreted in two dimensions: a) a global one, composed of 34 settlements, dedicated to the whole urban system to characterize the nuclei of the region, and b) another local, in which 15 cities and 45 precarious settlements are explored, to analyze their ways of articulating internally and with the urban complex. There are, in addition, three levels of variables discussion: a) configurational, according to Space Syntax (Theory of the Social Logic of Space) theoretical-methodological support; b) socioeconomic, obtained from 2022 Census (IBGE) data (income, education, etc.); and c) biophysical, which includes geomorphology features in different Legal Amazon territories. It is expected to discuss the existence of a local urban configurational pattern, and offer subsidies for urban interventions in these spaces.