Vocações econômicas de Curitiba: um estudo dos bairros e ruas a partir da base de alvarás

Abstract

In many cities, the distribution of economic activity occurs in a heterogeneous way, só that many neighbourhoods or streets concentrate more establishments of specific types than others, evidencing localized economic vocations. The objective of this work is to verify: 1) if the city has economic vocations according to its neighbourhoods and streets and 2) if this information could be detected by the analysis of the activities declared in the business licences of each company. Using geographic information system (GIS) and database techniques, data analysis was performed and support for the main conclusions was provided. Among these conclusions, it can be mentioned that the current classification of activities cannot be used as source of concrete answers about the economic distribution of the municipality. However, after a reclassification, using the só-called “aggregated main activities”, some trends in neighbourhoods and streets were already found.