Verticalização litorânea do Centro de Guarapari: um estudo de caso em geografia urbana

Abstract

This study investigates the coastal verticalization process, under a geographical perspective, of Guarapari downtown area. Because of political, economical and also environmental circumstances, the city studied, which is part of Vitoria metropolitan area, got the status of second residence touristic destination, also known as seaside second residence and that has favored an uncontrolled real state market, property speculation and as its consequence, verticalization. The study shows that the verticalization phenomena begins in Guarapari downtown area and its most evident and its negative consequences were access roads overloading, water supply issues as well as shading in the beaches. We aimed to understand the time-space dynamics of verticalization process through bibliographic survey, documents, news stories, photographies, interviews and field work. We also used 3D simulations for the time- space evolution of the verticalization on the seaside blocks.