Vazios urbanos e desenvolvimento sustentável: a política pública de habitação no município de petrópolis e a proteção ao meio ambiente

Abstract

In the dissertation, the existence of underused urban air voids in well-infrastructure territories ("brownfields") is analyzed in the municipality of Petrópolis, in the mountainous region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in contrast to the extensive peripheral occupation in are-as of environmental protection (APAs - acronym in portuguese) of the city, correlating these two aspects to the housing policy of the Municipality. It starts with the central question that the distancing from the Koeler Plan, the city's first sustainable urban development instrument in 1843, combined with inefficient municipal housing policies, forced irregular occupations in the APAs. The few programs to promote social housing developed by the municipality in the last three decades have taken place in distant areas, bordering the city 's borders, on the grounds that there are no available spaces to build in the well - structured central area of the city. However, the research points to four large areas characterized as urban voids in an infra-structure region, without the social function of property and the city, provided for in the ur-ban regulatory framework being fulfilled. In this perspective, the dialectics between these irregularly occupied spaces and the empty spaces in the central region of the city are theoreti-cally and empirically analyzed and how they are related to the serious environmental disasters of the years 1988 and 2011, the latter being marked as the biggest environmental disaster in Brazil, according to the Brazil Disaster Yearbook.