Transformações urbanas da cidade de Santo Amaro, Bahia: os casos da Candolândia, Caixa D'água e Caieira

Abstract

This research presents an analysis of the trends that occurred in the morphology of the urban area of the city of Santo Amaro - Bahia, based on the mapping of occupations (in built-up area) in the years 1959, 1976, 1998, 2010 and 2020, in which, by using data from the IBGE demographic censuses, geoprocessing and remote sensing techniques (satellite images, orthophotos and aerial photographs), a set of field activities, it became possible to characterize and describe the occupation process, and its population transformations and space. The city of Santo Amaro has shown, especially in the last 30 years, a gradual and territorial population growth of a predominantly disordered, spontaneous character, with a large contingent of its population living in these subnormal agglomerations. It is concomitant with the period of growth of the municipal urban population, from 1980 onwards, that areas on the outskirts of the city of Santo Amaro have been developed and consolidated, such as the cases of the neighborhoods of Candolândia, to the north of the stain, Caixa D'água, to the northwest, and the community formed by the streets of Caieira and Conde, in the neighborhood of Trapiche de Baixo, located in the southern portion. Areas predominantly characterized by poor infrastructure. From the generated models, it is tolerated having lived and still having the densification and extensive growth of the urban area. The accumulated history registered, between 1959 and 2021, was a 307% increase in the built-up area. The results of this research also proved that currently 68% of the population is concentrated in only 1% of the entire municipal territory.