Grandes eventos e a mobilidade urbana: O caso de Porto Alegre e a Copa do Mundo de 2014

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the impacts on the urban structure and on aspects related to urban mobility of the city of Porto Alegre as a result of the works for the 2014 World Cup. Space syntax techniques (Hillier and Hanson,1984) are used as tools to analyze three different moments: (a) how the city used to be before the works for the World Cup; (b) how the city looks like during the works; (c) how the city will be after the completion of the works. In addition,indexes of urban resilience as proposed by Cutini (2013) are used. It is possible to identify the impacts on the overall urban mobility in the city’s urban fabric and its resilience to the changes introduced by the works for the World Cup. As a result of the high level of ringiness of the urban fabric of Porto Alegre,it is possible to infer that the works for the World Cup have little impact on the mobility system as a whole,in comparison to what the city used to be previous to the works. In addition,it is possible to observe that the urban fabric shows a high resilience to the changes.