O processo de degradação física das áreas urbanas centrai

Abstract

Understood as the place of symbolic importance for the city, the centers face their spaces progressively committed with the real estate depreciation, demographic deflation, urban landscape degradation, front to the new centralities appearance. Then the objective of the present research is to identify the reality of the degradation process in urban centers with indicative of physical deterioration, considering as case study the city of Curitiba. The application of the evaluation criteria identified in the academic world as evidence of the degradation process centers results in analyses that synthesize the process experienced in Curitiba downtown. The results demonstrate that, downtown can be passing by a moment of functional restructuring, verifying the hypothesis of the research that, despite showing some degree of physical deterioration, some urban centers are not degraded. This result should be properly considered under management of cities, especially their central areas.