Destape o alagadiço: contradições e utopias urbanas na bacia do Jacarecica, em Maceió - AL

Abstract

This work intents to develop a utopian urban Environmental Zoning, supported by Land Use guidelines and lines of action, aimed at reconciling urbanization with the nature of the Jacarecica basin, in Maceió –AL, as well as encouraging the promotion of environmental services and the requalification and democratization of their inhabited spaces. The Jacarecica basin, located in the peripheral territory of the capital of Alagoas, had its urbanization process intensified since the 1980s, motivated by the urban sprawl of Maceió. The imposed urbanization disregarded environmental processes and socioeconomic realities internal and external to its territory, which have caused the deterioration of the hydrological and geological-geomorphological cycles, the increase in socio-spatial segregation and the threat to the quality and integrity of biodiversity and the life of local populations and city. The construction of the theoretical framework was based on research related to the themes of real and ideal Brazilian cities (sustainable), Urban Planning in Hydrographic Basins and Maceió. The work comprises the characterization and creation of urban areas, guidelines and lines of action for its object of study, aided by maps produced with Geographic Information System tools. The identified problem was that of socio-environmental unsustainability in the deterioration of environmental resources and in socio-spatial segregation, as a consequence of sectoral planning and urban market zonification, disguised by the plurality of uses and classes and by public and private spatial production. From this panorama, it was possible to develop the utopian proposition for the central object of study of the research and indicate actions for Sustainable Water Management and Rehabilitation of Urban Centers for Maceió. These propositions were presented as a contribution to the understanding of the relevance of city systematicity and the need for the harmonization of anthropic-natural dynamics, to promote more sustainable human settlements and accessible to the right to the city and to quality water.