O presente trabalho trata da relação entre forma urbana e segurança. Embasa-se teórica e conceitualmente em estudos que relacionam ambiente e comportamento, segundo os quais atributos físico-espaciais do ambiente construído podem favorecer ou dificultar a ocorrência de crimes e influir na percepção de segurança. Tem como objetivo analisar a influência de aspectos físico-espaciais do ambiente construído na distribuição espacial do crime e na percepção de segurança em áreas residenciais com condomínios fechados. Como métodos de coleta e análise de dados são utilizados levantamentos físicos e questionários, técnicas de análise estatística e da sintaxe espacial. Os principais resultados corroboram o efeito de determinadas características dos espaços urbanos, relacionadas à acessibilidade e à vigilância natural, na ocorrência de furtos e roubos, na rua e em residências. As observações realizadas permitem inferir o impacto negativo produzido pela presença de barreiras físicas e visuais contínuas para a segurança, tanto no interior das residências como nos espaços abertos públicos. / This research explores the relations between the urban form and security. It is based theoretical and conceptual on studies that relate environment and behavior, according to which the physical-spatial attributes of the built environment can create opportunities or difficulties the occurrence of crime and influence the perception of security. Aims to analyze the influence of physical-spatial aspects of the built environment on the spatial distribution of crime and the perception of security in residential areas with gated communities. As gathering and data analysis methods are used physical measurements and questionnaires, statistical analysis and space syntax techniques. The main results confirm the effect of certain characteristics of urban spaces, related to accessibility and natural surveillance, on the occurrence of theft and robbery on the street and in homes. Findings allow us to infer the negative impact produced by the presence of continuous physical and visual barriers to security, both inside the home and in public open spaces.

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Still, the form of these hounsing complexes were idealized by its urban quality, but your peripheral implantation, without proper infrastructure and isolated from the urban center influenced in an incisive way the post-occupation. The Vila Itatiaia is an example of this, whose project designed by Grupo Quatro Arquitetura in the 1970’s privileged its system of green areas and the public and private spaces joint. The project sought to provide an environmental quality through the houses and nature conection, and broad public spaces for social practices. Athough, the pubic management neglect with these areas generated different appropriation processes by their residents. This research proposes the analysis of the transformation process in Vila Itatiaia’s public spaces, from the perpective of the social practices, and the influence of its urban morphology. It is also the purpose understand the mechanisms used by their residents to restructure this urban space in question. With this, the analysis developed through two approaches, the analysis of physical aspects and the social aspects, those are subjective order and come from the ethnographic method, in order to experience the territory and select the most significant forms of appropriation in its public spaces. Reinforcing the nexus between the project and the construction of the inhabited space, the research brings the opportunity to understand the territorial occupation process through social housing, as well as to produce data to guide future investigations or intervention projects in the area. / A cidade de Goiânia, idealizada na década de 1930 para ser a nova capital de Goiás, insere-se em um contexto de construção de cidades modernas, cujo projeto prezava a racionalidade do sistema viário, o zoneamento urbano e a criação de um sistema de áreas verdes. No entanto, o descontrole de sua expansão urbana não seguiu os ideais almejados em sua construção. Assim, a cidade desenvolveu-se de uma maneira esparsa, potencializada a partir da década de 1960 pela construção de inúmeros conjuntos habitacionais em suas periferias urbanas. Esses conjuntos contribuíram para a diversidade de formas urbanas presentes na nova capital. Seus planos paradigmáticos demonstram advir de uma cultura de projeto crescente na cidade, originada também pela migração de diversos profissionais de outras capitais brasileiras. Em contrapartida, se a forma desses conjuntos, idealizada em projeto, prezava por sua qualidade urbana, sua implantação na periferia, sem infraestrutura adequada e isolada do centro urbano, influenciou de maneira decisiva a pós-ocupação. O caso da Vila Itatiaia enquadra-se nesse contexto, cujo projeto idealizado pelo escritório Grupo Quatro Arquitetura na década de 1970, privilegiava o sistema de áreas verdes e a articulação entre os espaços públicos e privados. O projeto buscava proporcionar uma qualidade ambiental mediante a proximidade da moradia com a natureza e pela criação de amplos espaços públicos para práticas sociais. No entanto, o descaso e o abandono de tais áreas pela gestão pública geraram distintos processos de apropriação pelos seus moradores. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa propõe a análise do processo de implantação e transformação dos espaços públicos da Vila Itatiaia, a partir do olhar sobre a prática do espaço, assim como a influência da morfologia urbana nessa apropriação. Também é objetivo do estudo compreender os mecanismos utilizados pela população para a reestruturação desse espaço urbano. Com isso, a leitura desenvolve-se por meio de dois tipos de análise: a dos aspectos físicos e a dos aspectos sociais. Estes, de ordem subjetiva, partem do método de análise etnográfico, com o intuito de vivenciar o território e selecionar as formas de apropriação mais significativas em seus espaços públicos. Elucidando a relação entre o projeto e a construção do espaço habitado, a pesquisa traz assim a oportunidade de se compreender o processo de ocupação territorial por meio da habitação de interesse social, além de produzir dados que poderão orientar futuras investigações ou projetos de intervenção na área.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apontar a relação entre a ocupação do território e forma urbana pelo estudo de caso do Plano Urbanístico Darcy Aleixo Derenusson implantado no ano de 1943 na cidade de Boa Vista, capital do estado de Roraima, Brasil. São abordados o processo de implantação do Plano; as origens da forma urbana radioconcêntrica implantada e o contexto das principais referências na história do urbanismo e no período da sua implantação no Brasil; bem como os limites e possibilidades da expansão urbana a partir da relação entre a ocupação do território e a forma urbana. Utiliza-se de uma metodologia pautada em levantamento bibliográfico nas perspectivas da geografia, da arquitetura e do urbanismo; pesquisa documental; estudo de caso analisado a partir de métodos e técnicas referentes à imagem da cidade e ao estudo da morfologia urbana e análise do uso e ocupação do solo. Levanta que na história do urbanismo o Plano Urbanístico Darcy Aleixo Derenusson insere-se em um contexto do urbanismo mundial e brasileiro que se utilizou da forma urbana rádio concêntrica e onde a relação entre intervenção urbana e manifestação de poder se fez presente. A análise da relação entre forma urbana e ocupação do território demonstrou que a natureza do território no qual a forma rádio concêntrica foi implantada comprometeu a expansão urbana da cidade de Boa Vista, gerando problemáticas ambientais e de mobilidade urbana, impondo limites à própria expansão da malha urbana. Indica a necessidade de um planejamento e gestão urbana pautado em instrumentos legais e de sua efetiva aplicabilidade para gerir o território considerando os limites e possibilidades da expansão urbana diante da relação território e forma urbana. / This paper aims to point out the relationship between the occupation of the territory and urban form by the case study of Darcy Aleixo Derenusson Urban Plan deployed in 1943 in the city of Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima, Brazil. They are discussed the process of implementation of the Plan; the origins of the implanted radio concentric urban form and the context of the main references in the urban history and the period of its implementation in Brazil; as well as the limits and possibilities of urban expansion from the relationship between the occupation of the territory and urban form. It is used a methodology guided by literature from the perspectives of geography, architecture and urbanism; information retrieval; case study analyzed from methods and techniques related to the image of the city and the study of urban morphology and analysis of the use and occupation of the soil. Raise that in city planning history Darcy Aleixo Derenusson Urban Plan is inserted in a context of global and Brazilian urbanism that was used radio concentric urban form and where the relationship between urban intervention and expression of power was present. The analysis of the relationship between urban form and occupation of the territory showed that the nature of the territory in which way radio concentric was deployed committed to urban expansion of the city of Boa Vista, generating environmental and urban mobility problems, imposing limits on the expansion of the urban mesh. It indicates the need for urban planning and management guided by legal instruments and their effective applicability to manage the territory considering

O trabalho analisa a cidade de Araguari, localizada na região do Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, a partir do processo de configuração do seu sistema de espaços livres de edificação. Apresenta-se o processo socioespacial de sua constituição, baseado em um resgate da evolução de sua forma urbana e dos determinantes físicos, políticos e econômicos que a moldaram. Avalia-se a gestão da paisagem urbana, seus atuais agentes de produção, e a urbanidade do sistema de espaços livres em duas escalas, da mancha urbana e das unidades de paisagem, orientada por quatro aspectos: adequação, centralidade, densidade e conectividade. Observou-se que a qualidade dos espaços livres em muito se difere nas diferentes unidades de paisagem da cidade, seja nos aspectos qualitativos, seja na distribuição, evidenciando uma clara disparidade centro-periferia. No entanto, é possível conferir à cidade um incremento de sua urbanidade a partir do reconhecimento e valorização de seu sistema de espaços livres, tanto na cidade consolidada, quanto nas novas áreas de urbanização. / The research analyzes the city of Araguari, located in the region of Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, from the process of your open spaces system configuration. It presents the socio-spatial process constitution, based on a bailout of the urban form evolution and the physical and economic determinants that have shaped. Assesses the management of the urban landscape, its current agents of production, and the open spaces system urbanity in two scales, the urban sprawl and the landscape units, guided by four aspects: adequacy, density, centrality and connectivity. It was observed that the open spaces quality much differs in different landscape units, either in qualitative aspects or distribution, showing a clear center-periphery disparity. However, it\'s possible give the city a urbanity increased from the recognition and appreciation of your open spaces system, both in the consolidated city, as the new developments.

Ce travail est une contribution à l’évaluation environnementale des projets d’aménagements en phase amont de conception. Il porte plus spécifiquement sur l’intégration des questions de morphologie urbaine à l’analyse de cycle de vie (ACV) appliquée à l’environnement bâti à l’échelle du quartier. La performance énergétique des bâtiments est en partie conditionnée par les choix de conception en termes d’aménagement, et notamment par la forme urbaine (géométrie et types de surfaces) et ses interactions avec le climat. L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer aux équipes de conception d’opérations d’aménagement un moyen de prendre en compte l’influence de la forme urbaine sur les potentiels énergétiques du quartier avec perspective cycle de vie.Une étude préalable a permis d’expliciter l’influence de la forme urbaine sur les potentiels énergétiques à l’échelle du quartier. Une approche de modélisation de l’énergie grise et de l’empreinte carbone des bâtiments est proposée, sur la base de laquelle une analyse de sensibilité à la forme urbaine et une analyse de contribution sont réalisées. Les résultats démontrent notamment l’influence primordiale de la forme des bâtiments ainsi qu’un lien très fort entre énergie grise et compacité du bâti. Une approche d’évaluation du potentiel de chauffage passif et du potentiel de confort d’été passif à l’échelle du quartier est également développée. Elle repose sur la réduction d’un quartier en quartier équivalent (réseau régulier de bâtiments parallélépipédiques), et sur l’application de métamodèles d’un moteur de simulation thermique. La méthode est testée est discutée sur un corpus de 45 cas d’étude. Ces développements méthodologiques ont vocation à être intégrés dans un outil existant d’ACV à l’échelle du quartier (NEST). / This work is a contribution to the environmental assessment of urban development projects in the upstream design phase. It focuses on integrating urban morphology issues with life cycle analysis (LCA) applied to the built environment at the neighborhood scale. The energy performance of buildings is partly determined by design choices relating to the urban form and its interactions with climate. The objective of this thesis is to provide to the design teams a way to take into account the influence of the urban form on the energy potentials of a neighborhood with a life cycle perspective.A preliminary study was conducted on two neighborhoods to detail the influence of the urban form on their energy potentials. An approach to modeling the embodied energy and embodied carbon of buildings is proposed. A sensitivity analysis and a contribution analysis of this model are performed on two generic building shapes. The results demonstrate the key influence of the shape of the buildings and a very strong link between the embodied energy and the building’s compactness. An approach to assessing the passive heating potential and passive summer comfort potential at the neighborhood scale is also developed. It is based on the transformation of a neighborhood in an equivalent urban form (regular array of block buildings), and on the application of metamodels of a thermal simulation engine. The method is tested and discussed on a corpus of 45 case studies. These methodological developments are intended to be integrated into an existing tool for neighborhood LCA (NEST).

C’est une étude d’histoire de l’urbanisme, une recherche qui appréhende la manière dont se constitue le paysage urbain par le biais de l’implantation d’une forme urbaine. Il s’agit d’une analyse historique qui vise à comprendre pourquoi et comment une forme s’est imposée dans différentes villes et à la définir par l’étude des différents projets qui y ont été élaborés sur une longue période. Cette forme est la voie de circulation concentrique. C’est une voie de communication ayant pour caractère principal de contourner un territoire donné et de le former. Qualifiée de « boulevard » en français et de « route annulaire » dans les langues germaniques (« ring road » en anglais, « ringstrasse » en allemand, « hringbraut » en islandais), c'est une forme mal connue qui s'est déployée dans de nombreuses villes européennes durant l'époque contemporaine et qui continue fréquemment d'être aménagée. L'étude retrace l'histoire de la diffusion et de l'implantation de cette forme urbaine depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle jusqu'à la première moitié du XXe siècle par le biais des projets élaborés par les architectes et les ingénieurs pour Bruxelles, Genève et Reykjavík. Et la thèse exposée est la suivante :la voie de circulation concentrique est une forme urbaine générique à la diffusion grandissante qui se décline en une multitude de versions à l’époque contemporaine. En d’autres termes, il n’y a pas un boulevard circulaire ou une ring road mais des boulevards circulaires ou des ring roads aux origines diverses, aux morphologies et aux typologies variées, aux fonctions multiples et parfois contradictoires car conçues pour servir des objectifs parfois opposés. Des voies de circulation concentriques ayant pour point commun d’adopter les principes élémentaires de la forme (contourner et former) hérités des circulations concentriques envisagées en lien avec les fortifications urbaines, des circulations déjà auparavant préconisées par la théorie de l’aménagement pour des raisons défensives. / Doctorat en Histoire, histoire de l'art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Plus de la moitié de la population mondiale vit dans les villes et cette proportion ne cesse d’augmenter. Afin de rendre nos villes existantes plus durables, de générer de nouvelles formes d’installation et d'apporter des modifications en plus, l'utilisation des installations actuelles devraient être plus efficace ainsi. Un espace urbain, à différentes échelles –un immeuble, un îlot, un quartier ou une ville entière- a une fonction définie, qui est limitée à certaines heures de la journée, les jours du mois ou les mois de l'année. Par exemple, les places de stationnement d'un immeuble possèdent de nombreux espaces libres pendant les heures de travail, tandis que l'aire de stationnement d'un bureau a des zones libres en dehors des heures ouvrables et aussi les jours fériés. Ces espaces pourraient être ravivés avec d'autres fonctions pendant leurs heures de ralenti. D'autre part, les espaces avec des usages privés ou semi-privés pourraient également être attribués à une représentation publique. Par exemple, les cours des écoles peuvent être ouvertes au public pendant les vacances scolaires et temporairement utilisées comme un espace communal partagé. L'objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier les possibilités de faire revivre les espaces publics et semi-publics pour d'autres fonctions que leur fonction principale, pendant leurs heures creuses, afin d’en faire des espaces partagés multifonctionnels. Pour cet objectif, l’identification et la compréhension du fonctionnement de ces espaces, leurs fonctions actuelles et potentielles, et enfin leurs utilisations possibles sont d'une importance primordiale. Il est impératif de déterminer l’ensemble des possibilités d’usage, mais aussi les limites de tels espaces, d’envisager les restrictions juridiques, réglementaires et/ou culturelles, au regard des besoins des utilisateurs potentiels ou des acteurs locaux. Environ 80 cas ont été analysés qui sont spontanément utilisé comme un espace multifonctionnel ou qui ont le potentiel d'être l'un d'entre eux. 30 critères ont été sélectionnés pour l'étude et l'analyse des espaces urbains multifonctionnels. Le résultat final est un ensemble de critères recommandés à prendre en considération pour changer un espace monofonctionnel à l'un multifonctionnel. Ces critères nous conduisaient à l'information qui doit être recueillie dans le but de créer une base de données SIG. Nous concluons par une discussion sur les capacités des SIG pour atteindre les objectifs dans ce domaine et de la façon d'améliorer ses fonctions. / More than half of the world population lives in cities and this proportion is increasing. In order to welcome new populations avoiding urban sprawl, to make our existing cities more sustainable, besides generating new facilities and making changes, the use of current facilities should be more efficient as well. To satisfy these goals, new opportunities have to be found to strengthen the urban sustainability. The multifunctionality of urban spaces might be an efficient concept to (re)design cities and to propose new urban planning rules. The aim of our research is studying the possibilities of reviving public, semi-public and private spaces, for functions other than their main destination and during their idle hours, to consider them as multi-functional shared urban spaces. Different types of relation between function(s) of space and time have been studied. It has been tried to clarify the definition of “multifunctional space” in architecture and urban design based on definitions of the concepts in agriculture and landscape. About 80 cases have been analyzed which are spontaneously used as a multifunctional space or which have the potential to be one. 30 criteria have been selected for studying and analyzing multifunctional urban spaces. The final result is the criteria recommended to take into account while transforming a mono-functional space to a multifunctional one. These criteria would lead us to the information that must be gathered in order to create a GIS data-base customized for this purpose. This research is concluded with a discussion of the capacities of GIS software in the way to improve the operation of an urban space through the multifunctionality.

Orientador: Gustavo Garcia Manzato / Resumo: O trabalho apresentado teve como objetivo principal avaliar as relações entre características espaciais das cidades e a resiliência em relação à mobilidade urbana, considerando os diferentes portes de municípios, em um estudo aplicado para o estado de São Paulo. Para atingir tal objetivo, foi proposto o desenvolvimento de um método de avaliação da resiliência na mobilidade urbana considerando viagens não motorizadas (caminhada e bicicleta), utilizando como inovação a Grade Estatística do IBGE. Em geral, para o modo a pé foi observado que cerca de 46% dos municípios analisados seriam totalmente resilientes, sendo que esta proporção é composta pelos munícipios de menor porte. Já os municípios que apresentaram uma baixa resiliência compreendem aproximadamente 11% do total de municípios e são caracterizados por aqueles de maior porte e mais populosos do estado. Para o modo bicicleta a situação é diferente, nota-se que apenas os municípios de São Paulo e Ilhabela apresentam baixa resiliência. Além disso, é observado que 91% dos municípios são totalmente resilientes em relação a esse modo de deslocamento. A partir dos resultados do método, buscou-se relacionar essa resiliência com métricas espaciais das cidades por meio de índices de forma urbana, a saber: Densidade, Concentração, Agrupamento e Centralidade. Dessa maneira, concluiu-se que a Densidade Domiciliar é o parâmetro que mais se destaca, uma vez que quanto maior o porte do município, maior foi o valor observado para essa mé... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the relationship between spatial characteristics of cities and the resilience in urban mobility, considering the different sizes of the municipalities, in a study applied to the state of São Paulo. To achieve this objective, we proposed the development of a method for assessing the resilience in urban mobility considering non-motorized trips (walking and cycling), using the Statistical Grid of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics as an innovation. In general, for walking, we observed that around 46% of the municipalities would be totally resilient, and this proportion corresponds to the smaller municipalities. On the other hand, the municipalities that show a lower resilience comprise approximately 11% of the total and are characterized by the largest and most populous municipalities in the state. For cycling the situation is different. We noted that only the municipalities of São Paulo and Ilhabela present a low resilience rate. In addition, we observed that 91% of the municipalities are totally resilient to this travel mode. In turn, we sought to establish a relationship between this resilience with spatial metrics of the cities through urban form indexes: Density, Concentration, Clustering and Centrality. Thus, we concluded that the household density is the parameter that stands out the most, since the larger the size of the municipality, the higher the value for this metric. For the other metrics (Concentration, Cl... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Urban segregation is considered a major social problem in Sweden and several national anti-segregation initiatives have been launched to decrease social and ethnic segregation but so far only with marginal effects (SOU 2005:29). Urban design and town planning are rarely the focus in national anti-segregation initiatives; the architectural issue has mainly been confined to matters concerning housing policies. This thesis argues that the strong focus on residential segregation in prevailing research on urban segregation is unfortunate and skewed, confusing issues related to urban design.This licentiate thesis explores urban segregation in relation to urban form because physical separation between people or between activities has an obvious direct relationship to how cities are shaped and structured by built form. Urban public space is often neglected in discussions on segregation and this thesis suggests that its role has been underrated. If it can be shown that segregation in public space influences such aspects of life as accessibility to other people and amenities, movement flows, co-presence in public space, and movement patterns, then it can be established that urban public space – as it is structured and shaped by built form – very directly influences people’s everyday lives. The thesis explores how urban segregation can be conceptualized, analysed, and described in a way that increases knowledge and under­standing regarding the role of urban form. Using a configurational morphological approach, this study shifts the focus by bringing attention to spatial relations within the city through public space, i.e., from spatial location to spatial relations. Hence, analysis focuses on distributions of space and through space rather than distributions in space. The result shows that configurational theories, methods, and tools contribute to more nuanced descriptions of spatial relations on both a local and a comprehensive level and analysis has the ability to shed light on essential differences in neighbourhoods and in the city as a whole. Using Södertälje as a case study, this thesis found a pronounced ruptured interface between the global and the local structure that clearly speaks of segregation in public space; this finding suggests that whether the neighbourhoods are residentially segregated or not, public space in most areas already is segregated. Results show that the built environment has a significant influence: urban space can both reinforce and mitigate certain social outcomes. This thesis identifies various negative social consequences of the hierarchical and segregated spatial structure found in Södertälje. Although it is not possible to say that integration processes are hindered by urban form, it is possible to conclude that spatial properties may both create and reproduce segregation patterns.Segregation in public space is found to be a far more urgent issue in the context of urban segregation than earlier recognised, and the result shows that urban form has a distinguishable influence on people’s everyday lives. This understanding opens for the possibility to address urban segregation from an urban design perspective, contributing to a significant discussion of space and society as well as issues related to urban sustainability. The findings of this study widen the possibility for urban design practice to be an important tool within anti-segregation initiatives in the future, a tool that in Sweden is used only to a very limited extent. / <p>QC 20101109</p>

Södra station area is a central neigbourhood at Södermalm, that was planned and built during the 1980s. During that time it was one of the largest postmodern urban planning projects in Stockholm. The intent was to imitate the urban pattern of the central parts of Stockholm with its mixed-use diversity, hence to “promote a rich social life” (Idétävling omSödra stationsområdet 1980, 4). This project investigates the urban form of the Södrastation area, focusing on the interface between public and private space, and proposing new urban features and land-use programs to further support and encourage public life in a central part of Södermalm. Observation of the area and refernance research show that the urban form of the Södra station area deviates form its surroundings and has low support towards its public spaces. How may the streets and the public spaces of the area be enliven? / Södra stationsområdet är en centralt belägen stadsdel på Södermalm. Området planerades och byggdes under 90-talet. Under den tiden var det den största postmoderna stadsbyggnadsinsatsen i Stockholm. Avsikten vid planarbetet var att forsätta på innerstadens blandstadsstruktur för att "befrämja ett rikt social liv" (Idétävling omSödra stationsområdet 1980, 4). Det här examensarbetet undersöker den urbana formen av Södra stationsområdet med fokus på gränssnittet mellan privat och offentlig mark. Därtill föreslås en strategi med nya urbana inslag och markanvändningsprogram med syftet att både stödja och uppmuntra det offentliga livets kontinuitet i en central del av Södermalm.  Observation av stadsdelen och forskningsreferenser visar att områdets stadsstruktur avviker från de omkringliggande stadsdelarna och ger i dess utformning svagt stöd mot offentliga utrymmen. På vilka sätt kan man uppmuntra till livfulla offentliga miljöer?