Habitação e morfologia urbana: criando novas paisagens

Abstract

The housing policies of the Minha Casa Minha VidaProgramme have produced social housing in Brazil, generating urban developments and housing projects in several cities. Most of them are situated in areas of urban sprawl, generating displaced urban appendices of the consolidated urban fabric. This paper presents a case study in Passo Fundo (RS) that combines private construction with public investments, with the characteristic diversity of typologies, building technology and streamlined the gradual provision of community facilities. The analysis is based in methods and concepts of full valuation of residential areas proposed by Montaner, Muxi and Falagan (2011). As a result, it appears that even in private enterprises, the tools "to inhabit the present," that consider housing as part of urban design can contribute to the resulting urban morphology of new landscapes get better quality and sustainability, provided that effect the corresponding public housing policies.