Expansão urbana na cidade de Delmiro Gouveia – AL (2008- 2022)

Abstract

Urban expansion refers to a phenomenon whose cities often permeate due to their population and spatial growth, provoking and producing the need for the emergence of new areas, previously rural around the city, now transformed into urban spaces. This growth, in particular, produces, as one of its effects, a qualitative and quantitative growth in the built area, being the investigative interest of this work, which will identify, analyze and elaborate a map with the areas of urban expansion that went through the process of urbanization in the last 14 years, between the years 2008 to 2022, in the city of Delmiro Gouveia, using the Google Earth Pro program and its historical images tool. In this sense, to identify these areas, the Google Earth Pro program and its tools will be used, under the technical device of reading the photointerpretation, in addition to the support of the literature review and studies of Urban Geography used in the analysis of the images collected in the constitution of the our corporeal. Allowing us to identify, map and quantify in practice how the development of this urban expansion took place.