Vazios urbanos na cidade de Piracicaba - São Paulo: caracterização e análise de sua evolução recente

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, José Diego Gobbo [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/156102; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2017-08-30/000890385.pdf
• topic: Geografia urbana; Crescimento urbano; Espaço urbano; Planejamento urbano; Piracicaba (SP)

The territorial expansion model of Brazilian cities shows a pattern of sprawled and fragmented occupation, with a discontinuous urban area and full of empty urban spaces. Those empty spaces, for purposes of this study, are internal plots in the urban area, that have infrastructure and social facilities, but do not perform their social function and are usually held for the obtainment of future earnings. The purpose of this study is to characterize and evaluate the empty urban spaces in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo, with 390,000 inhabitants and industrial economic profile. Piracicaba has presented in the last decade strong urban sprawl, characterized by the increase of peripherals housing developments and condominiums, deployed in discontinuity with the urban area. To achieve the proposed objectives, it was made the mapping of unoccupied and not parceled plots inside the urban area, considered as empty urban spaces in the city. The study showed that there are 2,156 hectares of empty urban spaces in the city, approximately 20% of the urban spot. Moreover, the creation of these areas was due to the discontinued expansion of the urban area with the creation of new housing developments, closed and opened, as well as vertical and horizontal condominiums. The area that corresponds to the current empty urban spaces in the city of Piracicaba, considering an average population density of 100 inhabitants per hectare, would be able to seat about 200 thousand people. Considering the current growth rate of the local population, of 0.75% per year, it would take about 50 years for the area to be occupied. Studies about the empty urban spaces contribute to the understanding of the resulting problems of fragmented growth of cities and reinforce the need to implement public policies by local public entities in pursuit of an urban orderly growth capable of ensuring environmental and appropriate city quality