A forma urbana do centro de Boa Vista/RR a partir das influências do primeiro plano urbanístico

Abstract

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.