Advisor: Maria Fernanda Lemos
Dissertation: Porto Maravilha and the urban sustainability
Defense date: 20/05/2019
Abstract
Given that urban sustainability is one of the current main challenges in what
concerns big cities and metropolitan areas growth and densification, the need to
understand the chosen approach for the theme in the most recent urban interventions
urges. Considering the impossibility of sustainable development without taking in
account it’s essential multidisciplinarity as a basic premise, new urbanization
projects conception must comprehend economic, social and ecologic aspects in an
integrated and simultaneous way. This research aims to verifying if Porto
Maravilha’s Project in Rio de Janeiro city has contributed for the region’s
sustainability. Using a specific bibliography, general analysis criteria have been
formulated to allow the understanding of how sustaintability aspects were applied
in the region in the widest and most integrated way. Throughout field research and
other documents it was possible to perform a sustainability analysis based on the
criteria previously defined by the methodology developed throughout the paper. In
conclusion, based on a cartographic representation which synthesizes the research
results, it was possible to verify that Porto Maravilha does not comply with equality
the pre-determined sustainability aspects proposed by the suggested methodology,
given that it does not fulfil its distribution on the widest and most integrated way
among the project’s diversified sectors.