Diretrizes de urbanismo tático: um estudo com ênfase em caminhabilidade em um recorte do centro de São Luís-MA

Abstract

This work aims to contribute and deepen the studies on the role of urban street design in urban vitality, in spite of the prioritization of pedestrians as the main user of the city environment. Based on the conjecture that the streets have moved away from their human dimension and cities have incorporated biggest problems related to the loss of urban vitality in their public spaces, in this opportunity, a conceptual approach will be taken on the fundamental elements about Walkability. The concept, originally, is inserted as an indicator of urban street evaluation, in which qualitative and quantitative tools are used, able to determine the quality level of space in favor of walking in the city. Within this perspective, the methodological procedures included the application of assessment forms of the physical conditions of the urban environment in cut, as well as the elaboration of thematic matrices. The Transportation and Development Policy Institute's Walkability Indexes and user interviews provided the basis for supporting the procedure that led to the diagnosis of the area. The choice of the study of walkability was due to the need to analyze the city environment from the pedestrian's perspective, as opposed to the car valorization originated in the modern era, and in years of public investments focused on the

use of cars. As an object of study, there is a section of the urban area of the downtown São Luís- MA neighborhood, where issues of physical infrastructure of sidewalks were verified. The

results were converted into design recommendations and guidelines for the development of pilot-level interventions at 1: 1 scale, using tactical urbanism methods as a prototype for creating a complete street.