Manaus, uma metrópole na floresta? A paisagem enquanto ca

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary results of the research on the urban dispersion analysis induced by the implantation of road infrastructure in the Metropolitan Region of Manaus, capital of Amazonas, Brazil. The landscape is proposed as an analytical category capable of guiding new opportunities for urban intervention considering the complexity of the diffuse peripheral territories engendered by road infrastructures. The research aimsto identify criteria for reading the metropolitan landscape of Manaus in order to provide subsidies for the interpretation of the territory in contribution to the instrumentalization of urban design and local planning, understanding the territory as a social product; a project at the service of a power strategy (Lefebvre, 1972); and as a form, which can be analyzed through borrowed methodologies of Urban Morphology and geographical studies on the landscape. The investigation culminated in new questions about the logic adopted by the State in the provision of infrastructures.