Environmental quality in mid-sized cities: case study of the city of Campos dos Goytacazes

• Main Author: Jane Ilce Barreto de Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Essentia Editora 2010-05-01
• Series: Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
• Subjects: Qualidade ambiental. Centros urbanos de médio porte. Trânsito. Verticalização. Campos dos Goytacazes. Environmental quality. Mid-sized cities. Traffic. Verticalization process.
• Online Access: http://www.essentiaeditora.iff.edu.br/index.php/boletim/article/view/273

<em>This work analyzes the urban environmental quality of Campos dos Goytacazes, a mid-sized city located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The evaluation was based on indicators associated to local traffic and verticalization process. Inhabitants of the most populated areas were interviewed in order to depict the main disturbances caused by traffic intensification and urban verticalization. According to the interviewed, life and environmental quality has suffered severe deterioration, disturbing dwellers in terms of increasing amount of neighbors, noise levels, loss of individual freedom (parking, lack of privacy in recreational and private living areas), and consequent property devaluation.</em>