As transformações do espaço urbano na Avenida Tancredo Neves em Salvador - Ba

Abstract

In the period between 2006 and 2016, marked by real estate expansion throughout Brazil, the capital of Bahia undergoes significant spatial transformations in several areas of its territory, especially its main commercial and financial center, where large equipment was built such as shopping malls, universities, hotels and various multipurpose ventures. Thus, due to the knowledge of this fact, this research questions the way in which this urban reconfiguration took place on Avenida Tancredo Neves? In order to answer this question, this research seeks to analyze how the Salvador Shopping implantation took place in Av. Tancredo Neves, and to what extent its implantation influenced the reconfiguration of the urban fabric in its surroundings in the city of Salvador - Bahia, such purpose was achieved through the following specific objectives: identification of the main factors that promoted spatial transformation at Av. Tancredo Neves and its surroundings; description of the main characteristics of multipurpose projects in the area under study and analysis of the implementation process of these developments by the real estate market and its results at territorial level. Due to the amplitude of the processes involving the theme, it was necessary to resort to an extensive theoretical reference, from classic authors such as contemporaries, as a starting point for urban space, the analysis was based on the concept of Max Weber on the composition of a set of actions that define the city, and to conclude, the relation between space and consumption, the research was based on the study by Zigmunt Bauman. The methodological course was developed by the case study method, accompanied by an exploratory and explanatory research, and documentary analysis, using data and information disclosed by the main legal and / or competent bodies. The research demonstrated that the implantation of Salvador Shopping provoked, motivated and induced a new spatial reconfiguration of the area, bringing the capital of Bahia new ways of living and living, it was also verified that the public power through maneuvers in the legislation, benefited the real estate capital, which also had the benefit of the preexisting infrastructure of the place, thus the relation of interests the economic agents and the public agents made of the urban soil of the studied area the product and the reproduction of the capital, gauging greater profit to the real estate market as real estate values are traded cost a minimum 15% higher than the values practiced in nearby areas, thus transforming the land into merchandise. The study cataloged the main data of the multipurpose projects located in the Av. Tancredo Neves area, as well as identifying the emergence of a new consumer profile of multipurpose complexes, in contrast to the low population density due to the low occupation of this property, beyond clear to identify difference in the pattern of the buildings, reduced dimensions of the real estate units, wide range of services, among other characteristics of this typology