Sustainable urban planning: A study for the implementation of green infrastructure in Bancários, João Pessoa-PB, Brazil

Abstract

The current model of urban planning in Brazil offers greater possibilities to motor vehicles, thus seeking solutions that benefit this segment, generating negative impacts to the city. The implantation of green infrastructure in the Bancários district in João Pessoa-PB seeks through more sustainable urban measures, bringing nature closer to urban space, using these concepts to reduce the impacts generated by the use of gray infrastructure. For its application, a bibliographic review was done on the green infrastructure, and then the diagnosis and dynamic portrayal of the neighborhood, in order to propose alternative scenarios that prioritize the conflicts and potentialities observed. Thus emphasis of the scenarios followed the concepts of Urban Mobility, Sustainability, and Urban Use, Occupation and Development, created from the characteristics of good public spaces spoken by renowned authors. Finally, a series of projects are proposed that, in line with the concept of green infrastructure, allows a better use of the public space, proposing more sustainable urban projects and attentive to the new needs of contemporary cities.