Vazios urbanos: orla ferroviária da Mooca

Abstract

The neighborhood of Mooca was founded in the late nineteenth century in a flat area of São Paulo and floodable due to the proximity of the river Tamanduateí and the Mooca stream. The lands from the dismemberment of old farms were parceled out by the private enterprise with characteristics different from the rest of the city, such as the fragmentation of the streets and the predominance of minimum lots. The installation of the railroad in Mooca leveraged its industrial development in the early twentieth century, attracting several industries that guided its development until the mid-1950s. In the late 1960s the region began to undergo a process of deindustrialization and loss of meaning from its main urban infrastructure, the railroad. This process began with the change of the international division of labor and the induction of the flexible model of production generated by the internationalization of capital. The displacement of the productive sector presented a new paradigm for the region, which suffered from the loss of economic dynamics and urban attractiveness, generating large underutilized territories called Urban Voids. he objective of this research is to contribute to the characterization of the neighborhood of Mooca, along the railroad track, between the Vila Carioca viaduct and the viaduct of Street of Rails, as an urban emptiness. The method used for the development of this research followed the following steps: survey of secondary data, present in books, theses and scientific articles; Visits in loco to better understand the urban dynamics of the region and analysis of the data, establishing relations with the spatial cut adopted.