Ruas de pedestres como espaços públicos em centros urbanos : um estudo sobre o calçadão de São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Sandrini, Rafael Takagui
• Orientador(a): Alvim, Angélica Aparecida Tanus Benatti
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Palavras-chave em Português: ruas de pedestres; espaços públicos; projetos para ruas de pedestres; calçadão de São Paulo; São Paulo
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO
• Link de acesso: https://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/28352

This Master’s Dissertation discusses about origins, transformations, and the actual role for pedestrian malls in central areas, as these public spaces represent a major importance in the contemporary city. Its object of analysis is Calçadão de São Paulo, the biggest pedestrian mall of Latin America – located in the historical center of the city. Pedestrian mall’s origins are comprehended as part of the revitalization of commercial areas (of historical centers) since the decade of 1950. This research has an approach to United States of America’s context, as this country has implemented the model of pedestrian malls as an alternative to the migration of commerce to shopping centers and new centralities – an experience that did influence the Brazilian context. The origin, its transformations and today’s perspectives of Calçadão de São Paulo are fundamental aspects of this Dissertation, through a profound documental research from primary and secondary basis. Through periodization – considering the city’s mayorships – proposed projects for Calçadão de São Paulo are organized and presented, since its opening in 1976, until 2020. Then, a methodology of analysis is developed (Metodologia de Análise do Calçadão de São Paulo), aiming to comprehend the pedestrian mall’s actual situation through two scales: macro and micro. In micro scale, it brings Calçadão de São Paulo to the central area’s context, studying municipal aspects. Then, it identifies six street stretches to the next scale, identified with a better result (three of them) and a less favorable result (another three). These street stretchs are analyzed in micro scale through a qualitative site research which takes to account public space elements at the pedestrian’s scale: urban furniture, street paving and land uses. It discusses the relations between the diverging street stretchs analyzed in both scales of Metodologia de Análise do Calçadão de São Paulo. This Dissertation comes to its final reflections which indicates that Calçadão de São Paulo has transformed it role throughout the years and continues to be an important public space of the central district. Interventions to update and maintain pedestrian malls – considering the human scale – should be continuous and part of a constant process of city planning.