TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN EXPANSION IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PARAÍBA PAULISTA VALLEY

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18005

Keywords:

Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Eixos de Desenvolvimento, urbanização dispersa, mapa axial.

Abstract

This study investigates the President Dutra Highway, inaugurated in the 1950s, and its influence on the urbanization process of the Paraíba Paulista Valley. Supported on the findings of Villaça (2001), which point to regional roads as urbanization routes, the President Dutra Highway has taken on a primary role for the growth of cities. In the 1970s, the President Dutra Highway was an important vector of the process of industrial relocation from the Greater São Paulo (LENCIONI, 1998). More recently, the President Dutra Highway was again pointed to in the proposals for the adoption of Territorial Vectors in the State of São Paulo. By means of axial maps, the temporal analysis aimed to explore urban expansion and the urban
regional road system. To this end, topographical charts created for the year 1977 and the database of urban roads existing in 2015, obtained from the Open Street Map (OSM) project were used. The cartography resulting from the integration index of the urban roads provided a spatial view of the intra-urban road system revealing indications of a dispersed urbanization process, thus evidencing the President Dutra Highway as a structuring element of the urban-regional space in the Paraíba Paulista Valley.

Keywords: President Dutra Highway, Development Axes, urban sprawl, axial map.

Author Biographies

  • Daniel José de Andrade, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP)

    Mestre em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (2015), experiência técnica em Sensoriamento Remoto e Geoprocessamento. Pesquisador no projeto Formas organizativas de coletivos sociais e políticos em cidades latino-americanas: um estudo psicossocial do enraizamento em fronteiras urbanas-periurbanas no território de São Paulo - SP, atuando como geógrafo junto ao Laboratório de Psicologia - USP (2012). Atualmente doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional na Universidade do Vale do Paraíba.

  • Adriane Aparecida Moreira de Souza, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP), Brasil

    Doutorado em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo (2008). Atualmente, atua na Universidade do Vale do Paraíba como docente da Graduação e Coordenadora do Curso de Geografia e como docente e pesquisadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional. Desde novembro de 2015 é Coordenadora do Curso de Mestrado em Planejamento Urbano e Regional. Desenvolve estudos que envolvem os seguintes temas: espaço urbano, especialização produtiva e interações espaciais.

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2019-02-25

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Vol. 18 (2019)

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