Roads to integration or fragmentation? The parkways in the formation of the metropolitan territory of Brasília

• Autor(a) principal: Maravalhas, Raul Brochado
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Derntl, Maria Fernanda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Urbana (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/urbana/article/view/8651993
• topic: Parkways; metropolization; Brasília (Federal District); history of urban planning; Parkways; metropolización; Brasília (Distrito Federal); historia del planeamiento urbano; Estradas-parque; metropolização; Brasília (DF); história do planejamento urbano

This paper looks at urban configuration of the Federal District (DF) territory by means of analysis of the so-called Parkways, which are the chief support of the capital’s road network. This inquiry presents an overview of the creation and reformulation of ideas on parkways in the history of urban planning, as a basis for a discussion on its peculiar features in the metropolitan territory of the Federal District. The purpose was to analyze the urban fabric crossed by these routes, with closer interest in the area of the Taguatinga Parkway (EPTG in Portuguese). The method involved in situ observations and scrutiny of series of aerial images and of relevant scholarship which led to the making of a map for this study. This paper shows that parkways had a key role in territorial formation while upholding persistent tension between territorial connection and local fragmentation within the selected area of study.