Espaços especiais em Natal (moradia e meio ambiente): um necessário diálogo entre direitos e espaços na perspectiva de proteção aos direitos fundamentais na cidade contemporânea

Some protected special spaces on behalf of fundamental rights to the environment and the housing at the city of Natal are fragile by facing actions and attempts to suppress and changing (or omission in the implementation) of standards in furtherance of those rights at the local level, which seems to reflect a situation that goes beyond the context of the city. Based on integrated approach of the housing rights and the environment and its protection of special spaces on the field of fundamental rights, the thesis seeks to understand the weaknesses that affect the legal state duty under the realization/implementation of fundamental rights to the environment and housing in cities, focusing on the issues of flexibility of the founding legislation of special spaces to the detriment of the attributes they protected and the lack of implementation of the legal system that allows their effectiveness. So, it looks initially to understand the environment and housing rights and their special protected areas in the brazilian legal system, looking forward the evolution of its legal protection, as well as the weaknesses that emerge in the field of their effectiveness. Analyzing the trajectory of the environment and housing rights and their special protected areas in Natal, considering its standards, attributes, protection indicators, weaknesses and negative evidence within its legal protections and their enforcement by state entity, this thesis proposes to verify the existence of forms to confronting the weaknesses founded in the maintenance of legal protection and its implementation. At this point it discusses the legal basis and safeguard instruments of protection, especially within the juridical field, as part of a (re)discussion about issues of legislative and administrative discretion in the face of objective legal state duty to realization/implementation of fundamental rights in the urban space. With all these issues together the thesis does not ignore the scenario where the dividing line between public and private (economic) are becoming ever more tenuous in the field of state action and where the city stands as a special commodity to the reproduction of real estate, according to the interests of capitalist logic

De repente, tudo mudou de lugar: refletindo sobre metamorfose urbana e gentrificação em Mossoró-RN

This study aims at solidifying the theoretical bases to provide, above all, an explanation for this phenomenon which currently happens, with a scenario of social, political, economic and cultural transformations worldwide in medium cities. Nevertheless, because it has different dimensions from its transformation axes, gentrification comes with change, but also with the introduction of a new purpose in the space using and occupation, outlining in this context the identity of places from the formation of centralities with the presence of flows with social and economic dynamicsThe current forms of geographic space appropriation show the directions of the senses and ideological profile which recreates the meanings and uses of content and materials from descriptions of a historical past. However, today there is an economic context in the urban space which refers to a search of strategies for change, i.e., the acquisition of parameter aimed at meeting the demands of the relationship between capital and labor, which ends up overriding some actions for the specification of the transformation methods within the urban space to be explained by new needs and also by the agents from the value adding to their interests and investments. Thus, we assume that the appreciation/gentrification of urban spaces may or may not result from the building of a public space, since the dialogic structure as a place of political interaction externalize conflicts and disagreements in general; it keeps segregating spaces. As new spaces are transformed, the access to them tends to happen with particular restriction, whereas some places like parks, shopping malls, high-rise and horizontal condos are the scene for major professional and family events. In this context, the gentrification process is used to designate interventions in the urban environment, in certain city spaces which are considered central to public and private investments. A historical place is permitted to be presented as a scenario, a stage full of attractions, through the transformation process. Studying gentrification consists of an analysis of the underlying interests in the transformation of these areas, and especially of the assessment of the interest level in the private sector to partner in order to modify the landscape. Gentrification results from the transformation processes of capital, which influences the efforts and investments application in order to establish and achieve optimal economic growth, focusing on a location socio-culturally centered in the urban space. Thus, the urban social structure develops in the light of some questions that relate not only the cities growth but also environmental conditions it provides in cities like Mossoro, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 2005 a 2011.

Povoações, freguesias e vilas na Paraíba Colonial: Pombal e Sousa, 1697-1800

The towns presently named Pombal and Sousa, located in the hinterland of the State of Paraíba, Brazil, still keep vestiges of the colonization process they went through along the 18th and 19th centuries, when they both emerged as settlement nuclei in the extreme West of the then captaincy of Paraíba and attained the status of freguesia and vila in a later period. This research aims to comprehend the process of urban formation and development of the colonial urban nuclei of Pombal and Sousa as they became povoados (hamlets), freguesias (parishes) and vilas (small urban communities with a local government), according to territorial expansion policies implemented by the Portuguese government from 1697 to 1800. The choice of the two urban settlements for this survey lies in the fact that they were part of the great conquest and colonization program undertaken by the Portuguese Crown. Another aspect that was considered was the fact that those towns are the oldest urban nuclei of Paraíba s hinterland. They came into being as early as in the times of the colony, thus producing a favorable environment to the study of the changes that occurred in the captaincy s hinterland scenery resulting from the process of formation and development of the colonial urban space. Three fundamental categories of analysis were defined since they have a direct bearing upon the urban configuration of the two colonization nuclei: povoado, freguesia and vila. The three of them are related to civil and ecclesiastic jurisdictions. Field, documentation and bibliography surveys were undertaken in order to develop the study. They allowed for the finding of vestiges of the old, colonial urban structures and for the development of theoretical analysis based on present-day studies of issues relating to the colonial urban history. The study purposes were, therefore, to try to understand how the old urban nuclei of Pombal and Sousa fit in the territorial expansion policies undertaken by the Portuguese government; to relate the process of urban formation and development of such nuclei with the categories of analysis povoação-freguesia-vila by discussing the relations and influences they exert over one another and their territory, as well as to unveil, as much as possible, the configuration the urban spaces that were shaped along the 18th century

A cidade e o idoso

This thesis concerns the study of the city and impacts that will be caused in its structure due to the aging process of the human society, mainly in Brazil. The most important focus will be those related to problems of accessibility, leisure, housing, health and labor, issues that most affect people over 60 years of age. Beyond the analysis of inherent problems to the subject, proposals will be made for urban intervention that the cities become more suitable for the living of the elderly. To support this study, a review of different theories about the city was carried out, then a panel about the presence of the elderly in society, including Brazil, and in the cities, aiming at a vision, as broad as possible, on how the elderly were treated throughout history. In order to establish paradigms and parameters in the approach to the subject, a series of systematic observations on the urban space in different cities proceeded, in Brazil and abroad, with works aiming the inclusion of the elderly in urban areas, such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brasilia, Luanda and Rio de Janeiro, a city considered by the UN as physical and territorial urban laboratory suitable for the elderly. From there we tried to obtain, in addition to literature and observation of other countries experiences, the conduct of field research and official standards analysis, the theoretical basis for establishing guidelines on how to plan and design a more appropriate urban space for the elderly

Ideologia da casa própria... sem casa própria: o Programa de Arrendamento Residencial na cidade de João Pessoa-PB

Brazilian Housing policy has always promoted homeownership. In 1999, a new form of housing promotion was set up in the country with the PAR (Programa de Arrendamento Residencial, or residential rental programme). This is a sort of leasing, in which a right to buy is granted at the end of contract. Again, with this, the final objective is homeownership. This dissertation aims at further understanding the role of PAR in the wake of the country s housing policies of the post-BNH period, analysing the case of João Pessoa, capital city of Paraíba state. By focusing in the city, it has been possible to analyse also the impact of the programme in the dynamics of the city s urban development. Accordingly, the analysis of PAR seeks to understand the programme s operational aspects as well as its location, urban and architectural aspects. The operational aspects refer to how the programme is operated, considering the differences to the other housing programmes in the country. The urban and architectural aspects refer to location, typology and construction characteristics of housing estates produced under the scheme. This study gives a general view of the country s recent housing policy and programmes and the specific characteristics of PAR, observing also its impacts in the city development

Outorga onerosa do direito de construir e dinâmica do mercado imobiliário formal: planejamento e descaminhos na expansão urbana de Parnamirim RN (2008-2010)

The `Outorga Onerosa do Direito de Construir - OODC` (Public Concession of Building Rights), instrument instituted by The City Statute in 2001, has as main objective the recovery of urban property, seeking for a fair distribution the urbanization benefits. The possibility of usage of the OODC instrument is linked to the maximum utilization coefficient, determined to specific areas in accordance to existing infrastructure conditions, further taking into account the formal real estate market, expansion axis and crowding. Being an instrument which establishes values to be paid for a better use of land, it maintains a narrow relation to the real estate, incentivizing or discouraging the crowding in specific areas. The present study investigates the relationship between the criteria for the making of the Public Concession of Building Rights instrument and the dynamics of the formal real estate market. It takes as empiric universe Parnamirim (RN), part of the Natal Metropolitan Area (RN), focusing on the application of the OODC in the period of 2008-2010. It seeks to better understand the necessary basis for the formulation of the instrument, about how it works and its relation to the formal real estate market. It aims to depict the formal real estate market by presenting the production of urban space in Parnamirim in terms of intensity and nature of the real estate, furthermore identifying the licensed properties through the application of the municipality instrument. For the conclusion, it is discussed the criteria for the formation of OODC, its relationship to the dynamics of the formal real estate market and its influencing possibilities in the processes of usage and occupation of land in the context of urban planning

O terciário (re) desenhando a periferia: a região administrativa norte de Natal/RN, na última década do século XX, servicializada na Av. Dr. João Medeiros Filho

The tertiary sector has been (re)defining and (re)qualifying, in an impacting way, the urban spaces in the cities, introducing new elements for the discussion of the relationship center/periphery. In Natal, as an inducing economic activity of its development, it conforms to the new needs of the capital, expanding, being materialized through several processes and spatial forms. We aim at analyzing one of those processes, which has taken its Northern Administrative Area to (re)define the design of its urban space, through the actions developed by the agents involved with the spatialization of the tertiary activities, at the same time as it redimensions its role as a periphery of Natal, contributing to the study of the recent and growing transformations of the Brazilian capitals. The studied district corresponds to 39.4% of the municipal area and, until recently, was composed by precarious reproduction spaces, unprovided of relevant economical activities. After the boom of the development of extensive housing complexes by SFH/BNH, the area, gradually stopped being a dependent area, and it imposed itself as an economically participant region, with the increase of the trade and services sectors, as well as a favorable place for the appearance of new activities. Its reflexes are noticeable in the achieved spatial configuration. As the main road to induct changes, Dr. João Medeiros Filho Avenue presents these new tendencies in the production of the intraurban space, concentrating the largest goods and services equipments of the area, through investments of the private and public sectors, which guarantee the capital allocation for the construction of a new centrality

Áreas de transição rural e urbana em São Gonçalo do Amarante : elementos para delimitação no planejamento territorial

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Edificado obsoleto e novos programas de interesse local

Dissertação de Mestrado para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura com especialização em Planeamento Urbano e Gestão Territorial, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Espaços de pobreza e mobilidade urbana: os deslocamentos da população de baixa renda em Natal/RN

This dissertation is an attempt to understand how families with an income of up to three minimum wages and living in different Areas of Demographic Expansion (AEDs) of Natal municipality specifically in the districts of Igapó and Salinas (North Administrative Zone of the city), Ponta Negra (South Administrative Zone), Santos Reis, Praia do Meio, Areia Preta and Mãe Luíza (East Administrative Zone) and Felipe Camarão (West Administrative Zone) solve their problems of urban mobility. It is, therefore, a reflection upon the mobility needs of poor urban households as expressed in terms of origin-destiny displacements for specific movements (house-work, house-school, house-shopping, house-healthcare and house-leisure), all of which being analyzed within the relationship between public transportation and poverty spaces of the city. In order to develop the study, theoretical aspects and themes related to the production of the urban space, to social and spatial segregation, to urban mobility and to transportation were confronted with the collected data referring to the urban population previously selected. One of the research main findings is the crucial role mobility plays in the social differentiation of such people living in Natal and that any policy for the improvement of their living conditions must take mobility issues into account

Henrique Novaes: técnica, território e cidade em uma trajetória profissional: Brasil, primeira metade do século XX

The career of civil engineer Henrique de Novaes, a remarkable figure in the academic, technical and political fields, demonstrates its extensive and relevant work across Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. It covered from the design of water supply and sewage works, road and rail transport networks, works against drought in the Northeast, hydroelectric and harbor facilities to the urbanization planning and architectural projects, which displays a systematic and multiple production. City and territory conformed to his fields of verification, practical and above all, transformation. The search for understanding of the inclusion of a social actor in this process thus contributes to the specific analysis of the doings of Henrique de Novaes, who graduated at Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro in 1906. From a polymorphic activity in different scales, one tries to figure how, through academic education or professional practice, urban history in Brazil can be told or built. The introduction of technological innovations matched the purposes of planning and urban sprawl, as well as met the specifications of regulation and institutionalization of public infrastructure services at the time. The overall plans proposed by the engineer thought of the city as a whole, interconnected to the structural networks. At the same time, the knowledge of a larger physical scale the territory bounces back in the urban in a relationship of reciprocity and completeness. The objective research, therefore, tries to understand the roles played by Henrique de Novaes s works and academic education in the accomplishment of systematic modernization of Brazilian urban space and territory, recovering a little known historical figure by current historiography. It is proposed, as methodological axis, that the study of this professional career configures itself as an essential element for understanding the idea of progress embodied in the technical studies and proposals for improvements and sanitation nationwide in the first half of the twentieth century . The primary sources for the construction of this analysis were technical articles in journals of the period ( Clube de Engenharia , Viação e Revista Brasileira de Engenharia ), and technical reports, government messages, newspaper articles published at the time, autobiographical reports and the engineer s verbal communications with relatives. The work is structured in three chapters: "Biographical traces, academic education and 'technical and political' activities" illustrates the initiation into the technical, public and political environment; Chapter 2, "Technique and territory" outlines his network understanding through sanitation and transport services; Chapter 3 "Technique and City" describes the influence of polytechnics knowledge on the propositions of modernization of cities; Finally, "Final Thoughts: An Evaluation," presents an overview of the affiliations and practice of an engineer in the different scales, and its contribution to the modernization of Brazilian urban and territorial space

Tornar paisagem: para a cidade espontânea

Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL

A identidade e o efémero

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura com Especialização em Interiores, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Der hinterhof: proposta "Kunstlerhaus" para quarteirão no Bairro de AuBere Neustadt em Dresden

INTRODUÇÂO: A presente dissertação decorre do trabalho elaborado no âmbito da disciplina de Projecto Avançado III desenvolvido durante o programa Erasmus na Technische Universitãt Dlesden, Alemanha em pareceria com a L’Université de Strasburg, França. O enunciado do exercício dado, intitulado Künstlerhaus\ tinha como premissa a elaboração de um projecto num proeminente quarteirão de esquina no bairro de AuBete Neustadt em Dresden. Pretendia-se a elaboração de uma estratégia que definisse o limite sudoeste do bairro através de um programa cultural, uma Kunstlemaus, residência de artistas, restaurante, zona de exposição, workshops e um auditório - relacionando o programa com a atmosfera artística e alternativa do bairro. A necessidade e entender as forças de estruturação desse bairro, com particularidades extremamente específicas do ponto de vista da interligação de espaços, leva ao estudo e análise de casos que, pela sua semelhança, possam ajudar a esclarecer e informar futuras decisões projectuais. Esta investigação, pelo interesse que foi acumulando, deixa de ser um simples suporte para o caso prático de Neustadt, mas antes uma base de interpretação desta realidade específica, útil e válida para qualquer caso prático em contexto similar. Contrariamente à estruturação inicial, esta investigação adquire maior relevância, no que diz respeito ao seu contributo, e apresenta-se como peça central deste trabalho. Assim, efectua-se uma divisão em dois capítulos: o primeiro denominado "Der Hinterhof- Investigação aplicável”; e o segundo "Caso prático: Aplicação em projecto". Este caso prático não tem a pretensão de ser paradigmático, mas antes uma possibilidade de utilização, ou forma de aplicação dos conceitos apreendidos na primeira instância - esclarecendo, por conseguinte, o sentido desta dissertação. Relativamente á escolha dos elementos a investigar, e de forma mais concreta, esta passou por identificar situações e operações que tivessem como base bairros com princípios urbanos similares dos de Neustadt, bem como características históricas e sociais também semelhantes. Nesse sentido, é analisado o caso da lnternationale Beuausstellung Berlin (IBA) de 1987, pelo tipo de abordagem, em rotura com a tida até então, no que diz respeito à recuperação de centros históricos; é ainda investigada a situação de Kreuzberg, Berlim, pelas suas semelhanças, ao nível do modelo, com AuBere Neustadt; e por fim, é analisado um caso prático - integrado nestes dois contextos (IBA e Kreuzberg)- realizado pelo Arquitecto Siza Vieira, com a intenção de entender a metodologia utilizada na aplicação dos principies pré-estabelecidos. "A cidade, tal como a realidade histórica, nunca é independente das etapas por que passou na sua evolução: é uma actualização dessas etapas e a sua projecção em direcção ao futuro" Berlim e Dresden, cidades do século XIX e XX, tiveram a sua (re)definição urbana na Revolução Industrial e Idade Contemporânea - ambas estas épocas cruciais para o desenvolvimento e reconstrução destas cidades, assim como para a formação de singularidades, nomeadamente a utilização especifica do espaço vazio do quarteirão na estrutura urbana destas cidades. Dresden procura, nos tempos actuais, reencontrar a sua identidade perdida após ter sido palco do maior massacre na II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) e cobaia do regime da Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). No entanto, uma pequena parcela da cidade manteve-se intacta desde a sua elementar constituição no século XVIII: Aubere Neustadt. Um bairro operário que, com o desenvolvimento histórico, social e político, viu os espaços vazios dos seus quarteirões, associados à rigidez do traçado urbano, serem transformados em concepções personalizadas pelos sobreviventes da guerra e por comunidades alternativas ligadas sobretudo ao mundo das artes. Esse fenómeno iniciou-se na Revolução Industrial com a ocupação fabril dos espaços ainda não construídos da cidade, nomeadamente dentro dos quarteirões, assistindo-se à sobreposição dos interesses económicos sobre o desenho urbano existente. Devido à ausência de um projecto base, essas estruturas foram sendo ocupadas e modificadas por comunidades distintas, compondo o espaço actual numa gramática complexa. Falar de identidade, é falar de apropriar um todo, e compreendê-lo como um acto de unificação. A conjuntura social alemã é a génese de vários factores históricos, alguns dos quais considerados dramáticos. Nos territórios de Dresden e Berlim, inscrevem-se algumas das cicatrizes mais profundas do século XX. Nesse sentido, não são cidades como acto violento contra a natureza, mas antes demonstrações da natureza violenta do homem. Sendo a cidade o reflexo mais imediato das relações humanas e organização em sociedade, as cicatrizes patentes dessa violência criaram um impacto nas estruturas urbanas, socais, históricas e políticas. Morfologicamente, o quarteirão é um elemento urbano que mistura, agrupa e, ao mesmo tempo, divide os espaços públicos dos privados - muitas vezes detentor de ambiguidades na separação destas duas atmosferas. Importa entender o motivo social que leva a que existam espaços semi-públicos e semi-privados. O Hinterhof (espaço urbano vazio do quarteirão) prima, normalmente, por um carácter mais privativo por se encontrar distante da rua. No entanto os seus acessos, nos casos particulares de Dresden e Berlim, são maioritariamente de livre passagem, dando lugar a pátios, jardins, espaços para congregar as pessoas (esplanadas de bares, parques de estacionamento, workshops, parques de crianças, lugar para estender a roupa, festas de bairro, convívio particular, ateliers, horta comunitária, organização de picnics ao fim de semana ...) Os seus papeis não se conseguem definir, tal a sua pluralidade. O pensamento de "partiha" alemão, ainda hoje presente, possibilitou a criação desses espaços plurais semi-privados e semi-públicos. Devido ao facto de terem sido, outrora, o espaço comum de habitação de inúmeros trabalhadores fabris, com um sentido comunitário fixado no pós-guerra, também reflexo das dificuldades e sentido de entre-ajuda social com a imposição do regime da DDR.

Habitação para uma área critica, Bairro do Barruncho

Dissertação apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura, para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Arquitetura.