Impactos socioambientais da implantação dos loteamentos fechados e condomínios horizontais no município de Eusébio, Ceará

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the social and environmental impacts caused by the deployment of condominiums and closed subdivisions in the municipality of Eusebius, Ceará. The methodology was developed in three steps described below. The first was the literature review on the origins, forms and implications of housing typologies closed the production of urban space, highlighting the possible impacts of the installation of such enterprises to the city of Eusebius, focusing on the metropolitan context of Fortaleza, capital of the State of Ceará. Then departure for the discussion of the case study through a description of the urban evolution of Eusebius and environmental systems in the region. Part of this step was developed based on the observations of the first master plan, approved in 2001, the structural element of the production of closed condominiums and subdivisions. The review of this plan in 2008 brought some innovations to the process of division of land that were discussed by comparing both laws, especially the effects on the production of space caused by the two plans. In the last phase was produced a database on the production of enterprises closed in the city, using as base the time frame mentioned above. Through photographic and cartographic material, such ventures were geocoded in order to provide subsidies for the discussion of the production of space afforded by the exclusionary and elitist housing typologies closed. The description of the social and environmental impacts brought by the enterprises closed used Matrix based on the Leopold et al. (1971 cited by Sánchez 2010). This method was adapted in order to depict the interactions between actions and the impact of the environmental components affected showing the relative impacts of the recent expansion of the city to the environment, the economical and social environment. Along with this, the comparison was by means of satellite images, the process of land occupation, understood in a temporal space of about ten years (1997-2008). The production of this material cooled the discussion of results from the distortion to the natural environment, more precisely due to the removal of vegetation and degradation of water resources (rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and dams), and also on the privatization of public spaces through the deployment of typologies closed to dismantle the evolution of the urban city, creating large "enclaves" harmful to the development of intraurban location. This pattern of urbanization was put into the debate, highlighting the social and environmental consequences of living in closed enterprises located in areas of poor infrastructure and away from urban centers consolidated.