CRITÉRIOS PARA A CRIAÇÃO DE UMA ÁREA DE PROTEÇÃO AMBIEN-TAL NA BAIXADA DE JACAREPAGUÁ (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL)

A Baixada de Jacarepaguá é área da cidade do Rio de Janeiro de extensa planície circundada nas laterais por dois maciços (Tijuca e Pedra Branca) e que apresenta expressivo complexo lagunar. Na sua base localiza-se, ainda, uma faixa de praia do litoral atlântico. Ali se têm áreas úmidas, mangues, faixas de restinga e florestas.  Dos bairros que a compõem, Jacarepaguá tem urbanização consolidada, ao passo que a Barra da Tijuca e o Recreio dos Bandeirantes conjugam em sua urbanização dispersa grandes condomínios fechados, shopping centers, baixa provisão de infraestrutura e bolsões de pobreza. Vargem Grande, Vargem Pequena e Camorim, ainda que com baixíssima densidade, têm expressivo déficit infraestrutural, possuem muitas ocupações irregulares e sofrem ação de milicianos.  Diante de tais pressões urbanas, o trabalho visa a propor e discutir os critérios para se criar no sítio uma Área de Proteção Ambiental e Recuperação Urbana (APARU), modalidade presente na legislação urbanística carioca, levando-se em conta aspectos jurídico-políticos, sociais, geobiofísicos e arquitetônico-urbanísticos.

Art museums and the global tourist: Experience centers in experiencescapes

Art museums are playing an important role is attracting cultural tourists to global cities and regions. Traditionally, art museums were primarily known for their didactic role. In a post-avant-garde era however museums are more focused on appealing to a broader clientele that want art to be novel and entertaining. Art museums have also come to play a greater role in gentrification projects and cultural precincts. This is because they are ideally suited for tourist-centric environments that offer a variety of immersive sensory experiences, and combine museums (often designed by star-architects), international hotels, restaurants, high-end shopping zones, and other leisure platforms. These "experiencescapes" include Port Maravilha urban waterfront development in Rio de Janiero, the Shanghai Bund, and the Broad project in Los Angeles. The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart Australia is a boutique player in the global market for experiencescapes. It is smaller than many of its competitors and is situated in a remote part of the world, yet it has made an important contribution to Tasmania’s tourism industry.

A dinâmica de estruturação dos estoques residenciais urbanos - estudo de caso : o entorno do Shopping Center Iguatemi - Porto Alegre - RS

Esta dissertação investiga a existência de forças de atração e repulsão que shoppings centers geram no seu entorno e suas repercussões na estruturação dos estoques residenciais urbanos. No estudo de caso, o entorno do Shopping Center Iguatemi – Porto Alegre (SCI) apresentou expansão e elitização urbana na primeira década e, no decorrer do processo urbano, atraiu maior fluxo veicular e atividades comerciais para as principais vias de acesso. Estas mudanças no entorno próximo ao SCI resultaram em mudança do perfil do morador. O processo verificado no entorno do empreendimento é apresentado, neste estudo, como compatível com a dinâmica intra-urbana de atração-repulsão que pode existir na relação entre atividade residencial X atividade comercial. Para abordar o tema proposto, optou-se por uma análise baseada em partes de três teorias (KRAFTA, 1994a; ABRAMO, 2001a; FUJITA et al, 2002), que tratam da dinâmica intra-urbana associada a fatores que atraem ou dispersam investimentos imobiliários e, à estratégia que a construção civil utiliza para convencer as famílias a mudarem para determinados locais – convenção urbana (ABRAMO, 2001a). A partir deste arcabouço teórico foi proposta uma metodologia em que se buscou encontrar correlações entre as mudanças da situação urbana e as mudanças do perfil do morador, dentro do período de 1992 a 2004. A proposta de análise da situação urbana englobou características de fluxo viário, intensidade da atividade comercial, verticalidade-densidade e padrão-tipologia da atividade residencial; enquanto do perfil do morador se analisou dados referentes aos rendimentos. O resultado do trabalho empírico evidenciou a mudança do perfil do morador e sua possível relação com as mudanças no entorno próximo ao SCI. O conjunto de mudanças (situação urbana e perfil do morador) forneceu dados para uma leitura do trabalho empírico em convergência com o arcabouço teórico proposto. Conclui-se que na parte teórica do estudo, houve eficácia das teorias para a análise proposta ao processo urbano. A parte metodológica, embora não tenha obtido o número de amostras suficientes para elaboração de alguns dos resultados, evidenciou a tendência de que o processo de estruturação dos estoques residenciais está intimamente ligado às características urbanas e suas possíveis mudanças.

Perfil Socioeconômico dos Camelôs do shopping Popular

The phenomenon of the informality has been common in the quarrels that involve Sciences Social and Human. First for not corresponding to a temporary and isolated phenomenon, and on the other hand for dealing with a presente situation in the majority of the Brazilian urban centers. In Cuiabá municipality, the alternative commerce appears as a social answer to the problems caused for the economic crisis of the country and seems to be deep-rooted to the urban landscape. This assignment angles was the street peddlers, in special that ones who develop their in a specific location on lowered of Cuiabá. Researches pretending to fill a blank of information about this subject involve theoritical and empirical levels. The theory searched to raise in a generalized manner given pertinent the informality and the pratical level through field research searched to analyze excellent aspects on the economic and occupational situation of a composed sample for two hundred and theree workers who develope the pratical one of the informal commerce in Shopping Popular in Cuiaba/MT. The analysis of gotten data alllowed to appreciate some excellent aspects with regard to the activity os the peddler, as: origni, formation, income, perspectives with regard to activity among others. In las analysis it still alllowed to verify the factors that condition the permanence these workers in this type of informal activity

Setor informal: um estudo sobre os camelôs do Shopping Popular em Cuiabá - MT/2003

The phenomenon of the informality has been common in the quarrels that involve Sciences Social and Human. First for not corresponding to a temporary and isolated phenomenon, and on the other hand for dealing with a presente situation in the majority of the Brazilian urban centers. In Cuiabá municipality, the alternative commerce appears as a social answer to the problems caused for the economic crisis of the country and seems to be deep-rooted to the urban landscape. This assignment angles was the street peddlers, in special that ones who develop their in a specific location on lowered of Cuiabá. Researches pretending to fill a blank of information about this subject involve theoritical and empirical levels. The theory searched to raise in a generalized manner given pertinent the informality and the pratical level through field research searched to analyze excellent aspects on the economic and occupational situation of a composed sample for two hundred and theree workers who develope the pratical one of the informal commerce in Shopping Popular in Cuiaba/MT. The analysis of gotten data alllowed to appreciate some excellent aspects with regard to the activity os the peddler, as: origni, formation, income, perspectives with regard to activity among others. In las analysis it still alllowed to verify the factors that condition the permanence these workers in this type of informal activity

Estudo de caso: minimização e reúso de água em shopping center da região sul do Brasil

The main issues related to water conservation in urban centers are the increase in water supply cost, demand growth, pollution and differences in the distribution of water resources. Water conservation, the controlled and efficient use of water, includes both measures as reasonable means of water reuse. Thus, conservation practices are an effective way to meet demand and supply water to new activities and users without jeopardizing the supplying water bodies and preserving the natural environment. This study aims to examine the water management of a shopping mall and the use of rainwater harvesting combined with greywater reuse. For buildings in general, water loss is common due to leaks in the hydraulic and restroom equipment. These losses, which are caused by a high volume of water used and wasted in the system, are often the result of design errors, incorrect maintenance procedures and users' bad habits In southern Brazil, where there is rainfall almost all year long, water shortages occasionally occur, particularly in some winter mouths. One difficulty that appears on rainwater studies is the proper determination of rainwater volume that can be used to address water supply systems. In this work, the simulation method was used to determine this volume. Thus, simulations with the following variables: rainfall, catchment area and water consumption were performed. For mall's hydraulic systems, segmented alternatives are adopted. That is, focusing on the use of rainwater or greywater reuse. Other alternatives of effluent reuse have been slightly discussed due to sanitary issues, those are effluents from toilets and kitchen sinks. The adoption of greywater may be feasible if there is a significant flow of greywater to comply water demand for toilet flushing. The inspections made in this study found that the quantity of sinks was insufficient to supply an adequate amount of water to toilets and urinals. The greywater reuse system was found to be infeasible in terms of demand and supply of water. Conversely, the rainwater harvesting system was entirely feasible and easily supplied water to all restrooms and contributed to the cooling of the air conditioning system with a short payback period. One of the challenges of this work was the need to compare the actual water consumption with a water consumption parameter used in buildings. Thus, a method that addresses the generation of specific consumption indexes for specific activity (like a mall) was used. The water consumption indices showed that this mall has a satisfactory water management program.

Setor informal: um estudo sobre os camelôs do Shopping Popular em Cuiabá - MT/2003

The phenomenon of the informality has been common in the quarrels that involve Sciences Social and Human. First for not corresponding to a temporary and isolated phenomenon, and on the other hand for dealing with a presente situation in the majority of the Brazilian urban centers. In Cuiabá municipality, the alternative commerce appears as a social answer to the problems caused for the economic crisis of the country and seems to be deep-rooted to the urban landscape. This assignment angles was the street peddlers, in special that ones who develop their in a specific location on lowered of Cuiabá. Researches pretending to fill a blank of information about this subject involve theoritical and empirical levels. The theory searched to raise in a generalized manner given pertinent the informality and the pratical level through field research searched to analyze excellent aspects on the economic and occupational situation of a composed sample for two hundred and theree workers who develope the pratical one of the informal commerce in Shopping Popular in Cuiaba/MT. The analysis of gotten data alllowed to appreciate some excellent aspects with regard to the activity os the peddler, as: origni, formation, income, perspectives with regard to activity among others. In las analysis it still alllowed to verify the factors that condition the permanence these workers in this type of informal activity

Retail centers for community : addressing both pedestrian and car traffic

The purpose of this thesis was to redesign a commercial center in Miami, Florida in a manner that incorporates the needs of pedestrians as well as the automobile. In my research, I studied projects that had been successful at integrating cars in retail design. I applied the strategies learned from this research to the design of a center that creates a positive interaction of pedestrian and car traffic, addressing the needs of the surrounding community. I designed a master plan that includes a mix of residential, retail, commercial and parking space. The parking is designed so that the retail center is not dominated by surface parking. Rather, the automobile is introduced into the different layers of the proposed buildings. The design focused on connecting pedestrian plazas and parking areas beneath them through the introduction of light and greenery. The findings show how a shopping center might transform the area around it by including spaces for residential, civic, cultural and social functions, as well as for the automotive infrastructure that make those functions possible.

Who and Why? Demographic and psychographic differences between consumers who have altered their shopping behaviour during a recession and those who have not

Research suggests that people differ in terms of changing their shopping behaviour during a recession. This paper reports on a preliminary descriptive study assessing what influences those consumers who have altered their shopping behaviour during such times. Driving the alteration of shopping behaviour were both demographic (age, gender, education, and nationality) and psychographic variables (attitudes, and head vs. heart decision making). Overall, the findings show that there are statistically significant differences between the two groups’ that marketers can address in their marketing strategies during the recession.

Including airport duty-free shopping in arriving passenger simulation and the opportunities this presents

Simulating passenger flows within airports is very important as it can provide an indication of queue lengths, bottlenecks, system capacity and overall level of service. To date, visual simulation tools such as agent based models have focused on processing formalities such as check-in, and not incorporate discretionary activities such as duty-free shopping. As airport retail contributes greatly to airport revenue generation, but also has potentially detrimental effects on facilitation efficiency benchmarks, this study developed a simplistic simulation model which captures common duty-free purchasing opportunities, as well as high-level behaviours of passengers. It is argued that such a model enables more realistic simulation of passenger facilitation, and provides a platform for simulating real-time revenue generation as well as more complex passenger behaviours within the airport. Simulations are conducted to verify the suitability of the model for inclusion in the international arrivals process for assessing passenger flow and infrastructure utilization.

An exploration of Online Shopping Cart Abandonment Syndrome – a matter of risk and reputation

ABSRACT. Despite the surge in online retail sales in recent years there still remains reluctance by consumers to complete the online shopping process. A number of authors have attributed consumers’ reluctance to purchase online to apparent barriers. However, such barriers as yet have not been fully examined within a theoretical context. This research explores the application of the perceived risk theoretical framework. Specifically, performance risk and the influence of perceived performance risk has on the phenomenon of Internet Abandoned Cart Syndrome (ACS) is evaluated. To explore this phenomenon, a number of extrinsic cues are identified as playing a major role in the performance evaluation process of online purchases. The results of this study suggest the extrinsic cues of brand, reputation, design and price have an overall impact on the performance evaluation process just prior to an online purchase. Varying these cues either positively or negatively had a strong impact on performance evaluation. Further, it was found that positive or negative reputation was heavily associated with shopping cart abandonment.