As transformações da paisagem na Avenida Hilton Souto Maior, na cidade de João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

This work treats about landscape transformations in Hilton Souto Maior Avenue, located in João Pessoa, State of Paraíba. The bigest highway corridor in southern and southeastern in city, the avenue was costructed in the end of 1970‟s, comprises approximately 7.5 km in length, linking federal highway BR-230 with state highway PB-008, as it crosses several neighborhoods. During the processes of João Pessoa decentralization and urban expansion through popular housing promoted and developed by public power, in addition to introduction of new large enterprises in its course, Hilton S. Maior Ave. has since presented series of modifications in its urban morphology. Thus, understanding landscape as a manifestation of space and materialization of social relations in time, and the street as fundamental morphological element of city, this research seeks to understand what were changed along the route of the avenue between 1978 and 2018, analyzing the historical evolution of the landscape, the new dynamics and practices of use and occupation from soil in the lots of its surroundings, and the accessibility and urban mobility attributed by the avenue in the context of intraurban space of city. In order to do so, readings were made of various scientific works related to the subject of work, documentary investigations in public institutions of João Pessoa and fieldwork, where photographic records and interviews were made with residents and merchants residing and/or working on the banks of the avenue. The collected data enabled the elaboration of mosaics, maps, charts and graphs. However, due to the great extension and heterogeneity of Hilton Souto Maior Avenue, its extension was divided into three sections according to the similarity of its morphological characteristics, allowing a more accurate and concrete examination of the reality of this space.