Requalificação da orla fluvial de itabuna-ba: a retomada do olhar para as frentes de água

Abstract

This work proposes, at the preliminary level, a requalification for the riverbank located in the Center of the city of Itabuna-BA presenting processes of urban research and development of the improvement of the urban design of the area. The requalification of degraded and abandoned water fronts has already been carried out in other European and US countries, not only for the purpose of environmental protection and rehabilitation, but also in order to take advantage of the social function of riverbank areas. The new proposal values the Rio Cachoeira, its history and its pedestrian movement as it proposes improvements to the river bank as a public space. The work was divided into four stages: a bibliographical review on the theme, a diagnosis of the area using the Landscape Units Medotodology, in which an on-site survey and the production of maps . And finally, the plan and the proposal that aim at answerins the needs of the place to make the riverside of Itabuna, currently with some degraded stretches, in a space of social conviviality with higher quality. Thus, attention must be paid to the riverbanks, which are usually places of origin of the city, and to implement systems of public spaces that are increasingly accessible, safe and comfortable.