URBANIZAÇÃO SUSTENTÁVEL: MÉTRICAS ESPACIAIS E TIPOLOGIAS DE CRESCIMENTO

Abstract

Compact cities with higher demographic densities, combined with adequate provision of public open spaces, can represent more environmentally sustainable patterns of human settlement, in comparison to dispersed forms. In this paper, we analyze the urban growth in a medium-sized, non-metropolitan city in the State of São Paulo (São Carlos city), during the regency of its first Master Plan (approved in 2005 and reviewed in 2016), through the application of spatial metrics of urban form, and classification of growth typologies. Based on that, we discuss the relations between form and development in the urbanized space. During the Master Plan’s regency in the city in question (2005 to 2016) there was densification, but also dispersion and increased discontinuity in the urban area, which represented a decrease in compactness and expansion of peri-urban limits.