Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DIEGO FREIRE MARTINS

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STUDENT : DIEGO FREIRE MARTINS
DATE: 16/04/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Zoom
TITLE:

Between restrictions and freedoms: urban experiences in the mobility of children in the city of Quixadá, Ceará

KEY WORDS:

Active Mobility. Independent Children Mobility. Environmental Perception. Affective Relationships. Place Attachment.

PAGES: 241
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Projeto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: Planejamento e Projeto do Espaço Urbano
SUMMARY:

Over decades, there has been an increase in motorized and individual mobility as the main mode of travel, especially in large urban centers in emerging countries such as Brazil. This scenario has caused negative effects on socioeconomic and socio-environmental dimensions. From an age perspective of this problem, the child has appeared as a subject gradually more dependent on the adult, invisible in the decision-making processes of public life, considered the citizen of the future and not of today and confined in private environments under the argument of safety and well-being. Their movements are dizzyingly more motorized, rarely independent (without direct adult supervision) and experienced through glass on “private islands”, in which the public space is just a passage. These relationships have had a direct impact on their social, emotional, mental and spatial development. There are several studies that centralize this discussion in the context of metropolitan cities in developed countries. However, there is a gap in research related to non-metropolitan urban centers on the southern axis of the globe to demonstrate the experiences of children's mobility in quantitative and qualitative terms. In this research, the universe of study was the municipality of Quixadá, located in the region of Sertão Central Cearense, recognized as a subregional center due to the concentration of trade/services and as a regional pole of convergence in higher education. Thus, the objective was to discuss the child-city relations in the light of the experiences of urban mobility in the home-school-home routes in Quixadá/CE and their incentives and disincentives to active and independent transport. We structured the methodological path in (1) literature review on urban mobility of children, focusing on active and independent modes (KYTTÄ, 2004; OLIVEIRA, 2004) and urban experiences (SANTOS, 1996; LIMA, 1989) through environmental perception (DEL RIO, 1996; ITTELSON, 1978; LYNCH, 1982) and the study of affective relationships in place attachment in the context of person-environment interrelationships (GIULIANI, 2003; SAWAIA, 2001a, 2001b; TUAN, 2012, 2013) as the basis for an ethical and political action-transformation in the city. As operationalization, we developed the case study of an exploratory character with (2) characterization of sociophysical aspects of the paths through mappings, field observations and photographic records. Subsequently, (3) we applied questionnaires to parentes and conducted structured interviews and affective maps with children aged 8 to 11 years in three public schools. To read the results, we divided the experiences based on the modal and monitoring: subgroup 1 (active and independent mobility), subgroup 2 (motorized and independent mobility), subgroup 3 (active and dependent mobility) and subgroup 4 (motorized and dependent mobility). Up to this stage of qualification, we registered that 73% of the participating children traveled with active modes and 39% of the total had some experience of autonomous mobility. Part of the parents was resistant to active mobility and, even more, to independent displacements due to distances, urban violence, fear of strangers, traffic and sidewalk conditions. The sociophysical environment was positively perceived, especially by children in subgroup 1. This environment proved to have elements that favored public life. The characteristics that were potentiated the mesh settings, city block, use of the soil, readability, neighborhood network, positive qualifications and environmental knowledge solid evidence of the mental images. We identified the existence of place attachment between children and routes, mainly in subgroups 1 and 3, to a lesser extent in children in subgroup 2 followed by subgroup 4. Symbolic relations have transformed spaces into places, favoring the adoption of active displacements beyond the home-school-home.

 

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