Requalificação do centro antigo de Salvador através de instrumentos do estatuto da cidade

Abstract

Until 1970, the financial region located in the old downtown of Salvador presented a structure that was revealed by a dynamism and landscape appropriate to the functions that it had destined since its foundation. In that decade, the urban organization of the Comércio area experienced a predictable territorial collapse, resulting in the creation of an new urban centrality, more adequate to the structural changes of the national economy. This initiative led to endemic transformations and dilapidation of the urban and patrimonial identity of the region, expressed in the organicity of its functions - economic, social, cultural, historical and architectural. Since then, diagnoses, prognoses and urban plains have been developed for the rehabilitation of the old downtown, which do not solve and the ruin of a historical and architectural patrimony so dear to the city. This article analyzes the possibility of recovery of the old downtown of Salvador through instruments of the City Statute.