Praia urbana: um diagnóstico das dinâmicas urbanas humanas em um recorte da Ponta D’Areia à luz do Blue Urbanism

Abstract

This concluding work continues a one-year research project at the scientific initiation level, PIBIC UEMA INTERNATIONAL 2018-19, undertaken between August 2018 and August 2019. The research referred to a pilot plan for consolidation and strengthening of an international teaching and research network for knowledge production. Originally, the author's work plan entitled The performance and environmental sustainability of the city territory: urban dynamics as a determining factor for morphology and the degree of local vitality, was conducted as a team within the UEMA Housing and Innovation Laboratory, with results. very promising regarding the analysis and diagnosis of the analyzed area. The research network established between the State University of Maranhão (UEMA) and James Cook University (Australia), aimed at aligning comparative studies on the theme of performance and environmental sustainability, especially in urban beach territories, from the understanding of human urban dynamics and the evolution of local morphology, during the occasion of PIBIC UEMA 2018-19, he emphasized the spectacular actions inherent to important local events, in this case, the New Year's Eve and its impacts from the environmental point of view individual space imprinted on the territory. In this work opportunity to conclude the course, we seek to analyze and build a diagnosis about the human dynamics bordering the urban coastal strips, including the beaches, and the degree of urban vitality, considering the relationships of individual-space interdependence imprinted on the territory under study. The importance and relevance of the research lies in the need for city spaces congruent with the concept of protection of the coastal strip, present in the principles of Blue Urbanism. Human interactions with the territory are facts that generate direct impacts on the environment, and in this sense, it is a discussion at the current global level, considering the premise that the preservation of the marine ecosystem is directly linked to the various forms. of urban living. The treatment of cities by the oceans is one of the factors that corroborated major environmental impacts, interfering with water quality and the increase in the volume of waste sent to the oceans. From this perspective, among the specific objectives, we seek to look at how urban design and the evolution of the urban fabric can contribute to the protection of the oceans, and also to understand how the appropriation of spaces coastal publics can improve the environmental performance of the maritime strip. From this, analyzes and diagnostics of a space-time cutout are performed in one of the urban beaches of São Luís. To this end, a multimethod approach was adopted, combining procedures of observation of the situations in the study area, by performing exploratory pathways, parallel to the use of georeferenced tools applied to the production of thematic matrices, sometimes validation tools of the assumptions established during the observation and field survey phase.