Dos sistemas urbanos e territoriais: Um contributo para uma metodologia de reconhecimento, representação e atuação: Acerca dos factos ambientais de coesão urbana e territorial

Abstract

The set of urban practices over time and the environmental pressure that is interposed on new ecological demands to the cities, has been tracing a socio ecological transition2 which has been increasingly expressed in the urban planning and in society. These transformations have put more and more emerging discourses in the daily order, on how ecological spaces can be opportune elements to think these transitions to the cities of the future, expressing signs of territorial identity in socio-spatial devices. This dissertation proposes a research project that can eventually be organized to contribute to the construction of a network - a set of links or interconnections between correlated researches - formed by a theoretical and a practical component. It is sought a methodology that can obtain the double condition of recognizing and acting in a concrete case, to understand the urban phenomena and facts in order to interpret them, as well as it could have a favorable performance in the research project with the capacity to constitute itself, eventually, as methodology of intervention. It is a research network composed of interdisciplinary interests that correlate the study with other disciplines, such as agronomy, natural sciences, psychology of human behavior and perception, and eventually hybrid disciplinary fields related to history, among others. The aim is to build a project that recognizes and acts on the reading of urban and territorial systems, namely in the way that graphic tools and methodological approaches are explored in order to engage the thinking about environmental facts as important elements of meaning to urban and social cohesion, relevant in the integration of current order discourses. In this way, in a "pilot study" made through walking the city as a means of intervention, we use pertinent records that connect the abstraction of the plan to the actual urban experience of the individual. Thus, we selected a laboratory-city, a case study, where we instrumentalized some knowledge acquired in the critical readings of the theoretical chapters, establishing relations with a concrete case, experimenting an approach to an operative methodology. It is from an interdisciplinary understanding that we work the relational condition of the study, from the understanding of the complex systems of territorial networks, to the width of the sidewalk, exploring the fundamental expressions of the territory at different scales as constructions of systems of meanings. It is from the real urban experience of the individual that we rehearse a given environmental quality, understanding a strategy of valorization and recognition of the territory.