Reavaliação de uma área dez anos após o processo de regularização fundiária em Curitiba, utilizando indicadores da qualidade ambiental urbana - IQAU

Abstract

The urbanization process has been happening across the world on an unprecedented scale. The search for greater opportunities and quality of life has caused constant migration to occur between rural and urban areas. However, this movement has caused cities to become more densely populated, and they are not prepared to accommodate such a large number of people. The lack of proper planning to alleviate this situation leads to a collapse, due to the lack of necessary infrastructure, which has a huge impact on people's quality of life, increasing the abyss of social inequality. The lack of resources forces many families to settle in irregular occupations, a situation that negatively affects environmental and urban planning areas, in addition to providing housing in precarious conditions, without the slightest sanitary structure and often installed in inappropriate locations, such as Areas of Permanent Preservation – APP or slopes. The assessment of Urban Environmental Quality – UEQ, is a tool capable of surveying conditions in areas of irregular occupation, demonstrating whether or not the location is subject to regularization, and, if so, assists in choosing the actions that should be taken by public authorities to improve the quality of life in that community. The present work aims to reevaluate a study carried out by Silva (2013) in the Terra Santa village, in the Tatuquara neighborhood in the municipality of Curitiba-PR, comparing the data ten years after the completion of the regularization process, in addition to verifying whether the indicators used previously are still relevant for the current moment. Around 2,922 families currently reside in the territory, approximately 4 times more families than existed in the region at the end of regularization. Of the 47 UEQ indicators analyzed in 2023 and compared with 2013, it was possible to verify that 33 remained unchanged, 2 improved, 6 significantly improved and 6 worsened. The indicators that demonstrated a worsening situation in their indexes are mainly related to the provision of urban services. Even with high amounts invested in infrastructure, the basic needs of the population of Village Terra Santa have not yet proven to be sufficient.