Commercial expansion and changes in Barão Geraldo district urban design

• Grant number: 06/06478-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2007
• End date: December 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina da Silva Schicchi
• Grantee: Letícia Jorge Wassall
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research pretend to detect and appraise the changes occurred in the urban tissue of the District of Barão Geraldo from the study of growth in commercial activity in the past ten years. It pretends to reflect about the influence of this commercial expansion in the population dynamic and the urban space of the district and to evaluate the effects that could become of this process. More specifically, it pretend to realize a complete survey of uses, activities, describe edifications and the appropriation of the public space beyond one of yours expansion axles, the Albino J. B de Oliveira Avenue/Rhodia Road, which commerce, built in the last years, consolidate it like a sub-centrality to downtown.