O eixo Centro Metropolitano: o novo espaço de expansão da centralidade da Barra da Tijuca

Abstract

The new production, occupation and technology advance progress patterns transform the present society, deeply modifying the urban dynamic. Before an urbanization that intensifies and scatters itself, mainly in an underdeveloped world, the city doesn’t remain the same and, along with it, its heart and urban centers are redefined. The traditional historic center can’t no longer hold the centrality, and then new urban forms emerge in a centrality that scatters itself in different urban spaces, dividing itself in distinguish centralities, creating new urban centers. In order to contribute to the clarification about the actions of the public authority as an agent in the formation of new centralities process, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the expansion for Barra da Tijuca’s centrality towards the metropolitan center axis and its particularities, between the years 2002 to 2020. The empirical division of this investigation is the Eixo Centro Metropolitano, the most recent expansion space of Barra da Tijuca centrality, situated in the south part of the neighborhood. In its approach it was, firstly, contextualized the urban site and Barra da Tijuca position, in addition to its political and land property connection with the master plan focused on the neighborhood urban planning. Subsequently, the neighborhood urban centrality formation was contextualized, as well as the displacement and transformation of its centrality towards the south part of Barra da Tijuca, the factors responsible for such centrality direction and its sociospatial consequences regarding the use of the land.