O papel dos loteamentos na expansão urbana de Salvador

Abstract

This dissertation aims to characterise the urban expansion process of the city of Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia, from the implementation of urban allotments in the 1950's. The city of Salvador experienced an intense population growth in the first half of the twentieth century, especially in the 1940's, a moment that coincided with the arrival of large migration flows attracted by the installation of the first industrial parks in the city. The rapid urban and population growth resulted in various transformations in the urban fabric, in terms of the modernization of the existing infrastructure and the acquisition of new areas for housing, meeting the demand for housing of the new population contingent. Based on this, this paper analyses the process of occupation and physical and territorial development of the city, understanding the new urban dynamics, its transformations, agents and factors that culminated in the movement of urban expansion resulting from the implementation of subdivisions, the main form of occupation of the territory and alternative to the housing issue. Through the literature review it is discussed the urban expansion process and its relationship with the urban legislation that regulated the parcelling of land in the city. For the description and analysis of this process and its relationship with the existing planning instruments, the analysis of official documents allowed the construction of a general panorama of the local experience by providing on the dynamics of the city that implied in its growth, whether physical, populational, economic and others.