Tentacles, Blocks and Axes: Space Syntax Applied to the Study of Urban Growth in Aracaju/SE

• Main Author: Martins de Carvalho, Lina
• Publication Date: 2024
• Other Authors: Soares de Medeiros, Valério Augusto, da Costa Ribeiro, Rômulo José, Sampaio da Rocha, Marecilda
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: https://doi.org/10.47235/rmu.v12i1.368
• topic: Crescimento Urbano, Configuração Urbana, Sintaxe do Espaço, Aracaju/SE; Urban Growth, Urban Configuration, Space Syntax, Aracaju (Sergipe/Brazil)

Dispersed urban growth resulting from political and economic interests causes significant socio-environmental damage. Based on this premise, the objective of this work is to understand the urban growth process of Aracaju, capital of the state of Sergipe (Brazil), read from a morphological/configurational perspective, and discuss its implications for society. As methodological instruments, subsidies from urban history were compared with the diachronic configurational modeling of the municipality and the metropolitan region, produced according to Space Syntax (Theory of the Social Logic of Space). As a result, it was observed that the city presents, throughout its existence, two distinct configurations of urban fabric: compact, connected, orthogonal central areas with a high level of global integration; and, linear peripheral zones (North and South), with dispersed occupation, fragmented and with low accessibility, coming from “urban blocks” with low levels of global integration, surrounded by open spaces.