Por entre as brechas de desenhos urbanos para o centro de Maceió-AL

Abstract

The urban fabric in Centro district of Maceió-AL highlights memories of the city, towards its diversity of contexts and temporalities. Since the genesis of the city, at the beginning of the 19th century, the neighborhood has established itself as a stage for important events. Despite housing an important institutional, commercial and services area, in the last decades the locality has also undergone changes in its territorial function, such as emptying the population and the degradation of its public spaces. It’s remarkable that few areas in the city haveits been presented as objects of plans and projects many times as the Centro. Those actions, certainly, aimed at the preservation of urban attributes such as memory, heritage and the activities that develop there, which define the social function of the area in a metropolitan context. However, in several immersions to the locality, a series of actions was noticed that indicated a certain weakness in terms of the design and management of dispublic spaces. In this context, the objective of this master´s thesis is to verify how the proposals for interventions aimed at the Centro district in the 1980s and 2001 treated the design of its free areas, in the research of documents that comprised the Urban Transport Master Plan and the Urban Requalification Plan for Centro. The methodological procedures adopted were based mainly on documentary analysis and production of charts and cartographic syntheses, which helped in the systematization and representation of the collected data and information produced. In a specific way, this work describes the process of occupation and conformation of the Centro neighborhood in the city of Maceió, from the genesis of the settlement to the current characterization of the locality, discusses conceptually interventions in urban centers and analyzes proposals of urban interventions for the Centro when repertoire the “clash” between the intentions and the drawings destined to their free areas. Complementing analytical gaps about intentions and designs directed to the locality, this master´s thesis tries other methods of reading and understanding content and documentary records of interventions in the central area of Maceió.