Multiespacialidades metropolitanas e construção social do lugar – rumos para a sustentabilidade

• Main Author: Cristina de Araújo Lima
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2004-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: metropolitan region; urbanization; urban sustainability
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/3080/2461
• ISSN: 1518-952X; 2176-9109

The metropolitan region of Curitiba – MRC – contains several spatial configurations and, besides having the third automobile industry of the country; it is currently the only metropolitan region with a population growth rate higher than the national average. Between 1970 and 2000, it had the highest geometric growth rate among metropolitan regions in Brazil: it grew 2.13% in its core and 4.18% in the suburbs(IBGE, 2000). However, last places are where 90% of the population live. There, social and urban structures are underdeveloped and the population number has risen three times in the last twenty years. Whereas in Curitiba 12.46% of the houses have an income around US $80 per month, in the suburbs this proportion rises to 50% or more. Discussing sustainability, it is necessary to understand the environmental dimension as a social and natural whole. In this paper analyze some aspects of the population conditions in the nearest neighborhood of Curitiba, where an improvement of the locus sense of place could contribute to a metropolitan and urban sustainability.