POLOS VAREJISTAS DE RUA COMO QUALIFICADORES DO ESPAÇO PÚBLICO Uma investigação sobre o Polo do Distrito de Perus

Abstract

This paper is the result of academic research that studies the Street Retail Centers in the city of São Paulo and aims to investigate and analyze one of the city's 90 Centers, the Perus Center, located in a peripheral region. As an investigative methodology, the analysis is carried out through the application of 12 indices developed by the group, which form the IQUP (Quality Index of Public Spaces in Street Retail Centers), in addition to face-to-face interviews carried out with local traders. As a result, the article analyzes aspects that may have contributed to the current formation of the Perus hub as a relevant retail concentration for the city and its region, and seeks to contribute to the debate on the influence of commercial territories in peripheral regions and with high social vulnerability indexes as a factor for the quality of urban life, by creating spaces for public use that are more accessible to a wide portion of the population.