Nature and cities: relations between the urbanization and the incorporation of the green areas in the Campinas city (SP)

Author(s)

Mariana Ferreira Cisotto

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2009-11-27

Examining board members

Antonio Carlos Vitte; Dionete Aparecida Santin; Nilson Cesar Fraga

• Advisor: Antonio Carlos Vitte

Abstract

In the present work we have related the distribution of the green areas, such as forest fragments, to the urbanization in Campinas-SP analysing the urbanization history and its main urbanistic plannings. After comparing the location of green areas to the patterns of human occupation within Campinas region, we have found that the occupation is sparse, caracterized for the urban sprawl, promoted by the vectors of expansion vectors, where forest fragments appears as green areas within a main urban matrix. Once the meaning of green areas is exposed, we analysed the distribution of these areas considering the case studies of two natural protected areas, the Bosque dos Jequitibás and the Mata de Santa Genebra, which were incorporated to the urban matrix in different times. The natural resources in cities, represented by green areas, have become scarce in the last decades. Considering the increasing desire of better life quality, forest fragments and green areas have promoted the land valorization. An incresing number of comdominiums have highlightened the population desire for living close to green areas, a process that incorporates these areas to the urban system through real state markets, following the vectors of urban expansion andurban sprawl. Consequently, the green areas in comdominiuns, wich still occurs within the cities, are being (re) incorporated as quality of life that can be purchased. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 08/02285-4 - Relations between the production of the urban space and a new meaning of the nature in Campinas-SP, through the study of the green areas.
• Grantee: Mariana Ferreira Cisotto
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master