
Higor Costa
Making better cities through architecture.
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In this paper, we discuss how natural context can drive urban expansion, using as an example the city of Maringá-PR, in the southern Brazil. Relating environmental sustainability, urban morphology and urban planning, some alternatives for cities’ growth based on site natural elements are proposed. Also, it’s seen how urban perimeters and zonings can consider urban form as a product of natural context, taking advantage of its potentialities. Facing urban expansion and sprawl and natural resources degradation, how to expand urban limits granting the integration of ecological functions and city’s form unicity? Based on the analysis of the area, green infrastructure elements, as green wedges, and greenways, are associated to site morphological characteristics. Thus, by using directives for new layouts and land zonings in rural areas with potential for urban development, an alternative of urban expansion is proposed delimited by natural elements and integrated with territory environmental matrix.
In this paper, we discuss how natural context can drive urban expansion, using as an example the city of Maringá-PR, in the southern Brazil. Relating environmental sustainability, urban morphology and urban planning, some alternatives for cities’ growth based on site natural elements are proposed. Also, it’s seen how urban perimeters and zonings can consider urban form as a product of natural context, taking advantage of its potentialities. Facing urban expansion and sprawl and natural resources degradation, how to expand urban limits granting the integration of ecological functions and city’s form unicity? Based on the analysis of the area, green infrastructure elements, as green wedges, and greenways, are associated to site morphological characteristics. Thus, by using directives for new layouts and land zonings in rural areas with potential for urban development, an alternative of urban expansion is proposed delimited by natural elements and integrated with territory environmental matrix.