Florianópolis Urban Agglomeration

Evaluation of spatial quality in the main centralities

Abstract

In Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the policies of prioritizing the autos and the consequent urban sprawling, have generated new areas of centrality. In a previous study, through the Space Syntax Theory, we have identified the potential centralities of the urban agglomeration. The three main centralities surveyed – Island Centrality, Continental Centrality and Palhoça Centrality – present global level influence, that is, acts on the dynamics of all urban agglomeration. Thus, in this paper, an analysis of four urban attributes related to spatial quality in the main centralities: urban ambience, verticalization, historical relevance and relevance of the landscape. The centrality that most contemplated satisfactory qualities with respect to the features evaluated was the Island Centrality. The other centralities didn’t contemplate equally satisfying attributes, which indicates the low spatial quality and the not recognition, up to the moment, of the urban potential existing in these localities.

Keywords: centrality, spatial quality, urban agglomeration, Florianópolis.