Atratores urbanos : mensurando e representando a atratividade de espaços urbanos de Fortaleza, Ceará

Abstract

This project has as its theme Information Modeling and Design, having as study context the representation of the city and its urban phenomena. Throughout the development of urban sciences, the understanding and conceptualization of the capacity that certain urban spaces have to converge for themselves, people, uses and investments, was developed in a particular way by scholars of urban theory. This ended up generating bifurcations of definitions and ways of understanding urban attractiveness, as a phenomenon, and it is not possible to identify initiatives to represent it. Thus, the research starts from the following problem: How is it possible to make clear the attractiveness of urban spaces? Therefore, the research aims to elaborate a device that helps the graphic representation of the attractiveness of urban spaces. The device must be able to generate statistical analyzes and visualizations about the attractiveness in a city. Methodologically, the research is classified as a study with a quantitative approach, seeking to numerically express the characteristics of the variables to be listed. In order to identify the variables and as a way of synthesizing a concept of attractiveness, a bibliographical research was started, listing keywords, concepts and terminologies related to the study of attractiveness that guided the search for other studies, helping to formalize a systematic review of the literature. Having the proposition of a visual language as its main objective, the research adopts the inductive method based on the concept of hypothetigraphy and the declaration of a framework that makes it possible to measure an attractiveness index, in the service of a objective the service of an objective, seeking not a single solution, but the most satisfactory and preferably simple one. For the elaboration of the device, the area of application of the research will first be defined. Approaching studies already carried out in Fortaleza, Ceará, the research focuses on the Porangabussu neighborhood and the area destined for the implementation of a Health Innovation District (DIS), Viva@Porangabussu. The choice of the area was due to the possibility of using an attractiveness analysis device, as a way of identifying possible transforming dynamics of the urban space, such as gentrification, usually resulting from large developments, as foreseen in the area. In addition, the area has a good availability of data that facilitate the elaboration of the device. After choosing the spatial cut, georeferenced databases containing information about the demographic census, research on the origin and destination of the municipality and urban information already built and available in databases of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) will be raised. Subsequently, a tool based on computational models and the elaboration of indicators will be listed, which will help in the reading, treatment, operations and visualizations of this database. As a final result, the research will be based on the precepts of city information modeling, seeking to draw better representations of data and device operations, based on maps, diagrams, tables and whatever else is deemed necessary, to clarify the understanding of urban attractiveness beyond a spatial quality, but also a phenomenon.