Corredores de atividades múltiplas: uma nova definição para os espaços terciários?

Abstract

The process of expansion of the urban space of the Maceió city, characterized for the creation of valued regions more beyond the limits of the Central Area, stimulated, over all, for the technological development through vulgarization the automobile that made possible new displacements and for the real estate activity that the objective had to create new vectors of occupation, coincides with the period of abandonment of the Center as main place of housing and localization of the ranks of work, the commerce and the services. Following this process of occupation new areas city dwellers, it was had action of the public power in disencumbering the transit of the central region, in the decade of 1980, virtue of the little capacity to absorb the demanded demand of vehicles. This action was reflected in the creation of new elements - Zones and Corridors of Multiple Activities - in which the tertiary activity could be installed. Being, initially, responsible in approaching the tertiary activities of the residences, creating new centralities, the Corridors of Multiple Activities, had had its concept and function transformed, passing to be defined from the ticket of the public transport, without the function and the capacity of the ways were considered where they had been installed. The result of this process discloses to a significant alteration in the landscape and the spaces of circulation and conviviality reflecting an overlapping of functions which start to compromise the development of each one in concurrence.