O impacto do shopping center no espaço urbano: a influência do tropical Shopping Center na forma urbana do Bairro Renascença II

Abstract

This present work concerns on the influence of the shopping center over the urban space, causing changes in the urban shape due to the property speculation attracted by it. This can be seen since its origin in United States, where shopping was the attractive element to the appearance of new neighbors of high level pattern. From the study of shape, we can know essential features which understand the urban space. In this work, we have been studied the impacts generated by shopping centers’ deployment in the Setor Jardim Goiás in Goiania (GO), in the Belvedere III neighbor in Belo Horizonte (MG) and in the Boa Viagem neighbor in Recife (PE), which have been passed through a intense verticalization generated by property valorization arisen from the commercial success of a shopping center. All acquired knowledge based the general object of this work: the analysis of the morphological elements of Renascença II neighbor in São Luís after the building of the first shopping in 1986, the Tropical Shopping Center, on the assumption that the neighbor verticalization was occurred as a reflex of the shopping deployment. For this, we tried to know the context of São Luís on that time, the history of Tropical Shopping and its deployment process.