Advisor: Maria Fernanda Lemos
Dissertation: Active Mobility: condition of Urban Sustainability in the historic streets of São José – Recife
Defense date: 13/03/2023
Abstract
Urban mobility is part of a complex infrastructure system, causing
unsustainable problems such as congestion, noise pollution, air pollution in densely
urbanized areas, such as urban centers, and results in damage to urban
environmental comfort. In the search for urban sustainability, favorable actions are
necessary for urban mobility and the concept of active mobility emerges in favor of
prioritizing the displacement of people through non-motorized means of transport.
In this context, it leads to the aim of the dissertation, which in the current scenario
of urban mobility on the streets of the Sao Jose neighborhood, in the city of Recife,
is to identify measures to improve accessibility conditions and urban environmental
comfort to encourage active mobility. Such roads belong to the Historic Site of the
city, in the set of Special Zones of Historical-Cultural Heritage (ZEPH). Through
the field survey, the applied methodology tends to identify the threats and
opportunities to encourage active mobility, observing the conditions of accessibility
in terms of an accessible route, the conditions of urban environmental comfort
related to noise rates, emissions of particulate matter and comfort thermal, exposing
the qualitative and quantitative data obtained. The research seeks to present active
mobility as a sustainable action that favors the reduction of socioeconomic and
environmental impacts and possible improvements in accessibility for walkability
in the historic streets of the Sao Jose neighborhood, prioritizing pedestrians and
encouraging a change in their daily commute behavior, in addition to enjoying the
neighborhood as a heritage and cultural environment.