O itinerário da cidadania: a acessibilidade das pessoas com deficiência visual ao Centro Histórico de São Luís - Maranhão

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Maria do Perpetuo Socorro Castelo Branco Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4178
• topic: Acessibilidade; Urbanidade; Cidadania; Inclusão social; Accessibility; Civility; Citizenship; Social inclusion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

Through this research, we proposed to investigate the phenomenon of urban accessibility, dedicated to people with disabilities, particularly people with impaired vision in his path in the Historic Center of St. Louis, in view of the space limitations that this imposes - by through its format and traces its streets, sidewalks and other buildings - these people, preventing them to move about independently and safely. We also want to know the implications of autonomous mobility impairment in the process of socialization of people with visual impairments, as in the Historical Center of St. Louis - has fallen space is protected under the aegis of World Heritage Site - is devoted to memory of the city and consolidated in the popular imagination, ideas and values that are expressed nowadays by: culture, economics, politics and social relations that grow there in the light of further syncretism, a product of the sacred and the profane, which gives meaning in the social organization of the city's population. We also seek to examine how people with disabilities are socially organized in the fight for their demands for citizenship and for the realization of their rights in order to better understand their interests, hopes and difficulties on the issue of accessibility. The starting point of some questions to find out the difficulties of operation of public policies regarding urban accessibility and character of urban life in the process of social inclusion of people with visual impairments. For this purpose this paper we use the abundant legislation on urban policy, with respect to accessibility in areas listed by the architecture and cultural, as well as documentary research, literature and field. More than one social exclusion caused by architectural barriers and lack of political will of public officials to promote accessibility for people with visual impairments in the Historic Center of St. Louis, adapting or adjusting this space to those, our research also revealed the existence of barriers attitudes, which are expressed through the culture that formed on the visually handicapped