Paralela XXI: a expansão urbana no vetor da Avenida Luis Viana Filho Salvador/BA – 1968 a 2013

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the expansion of the city of Salvador / BA and the modeling agents of urban space, at the vector axis of Avenida Paralela (Salvador/BA), as is known the Avenida Luis Viana Filho, between 1968 and 2013. The methodology consisted of quantitative research, based on concepts and theories from the analysis of the dynamics of implementation of projects along this avenue, based on the survey data contained in building permits issued by the city administration of Salvador and census data of IBGE (2010), which were translated into thematic maps, tables and graphs. The information obtained was subsequently crossed with aerial photos, and confronted by field research in the study area. The hypothesis that sought to prove was that this territory has been characterized as an expansion axis of Salvador and, as it was conceived at the very beginning, as a link between Salvador and other cities of the metropolitan region. Subsequently acting as a point of connection between the ventures deployed there, it has been remodeled to get back to it’s original function. In brief, spatial transformations that occurred in the city were rebuilt as a whole, and in this location more specifically, dating back to the construction of this avenue in the 1970s and the repercussions on the territory historically contextualized. As a result, the hypothesis raised was confirmed by the action of social agents in the urbanized vector intending the production of new urban spaces. With this present work, one looks foward to enrich and awaken interest in the production of new studies and/or interventions in this area of town, though little investigation was found about it in the academic area.