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of cultural and natural heritage; protection of people in situations of vulnerability;
reduction of negative environmental impact (air quality, waste management); positive
economic, social and environmental relations between urban, peri-urban and rural
areas; national and regional development planning; integrated plans for inclusion,
resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change; resilience to disaster; sustainable and resilient buildings with local materials. The present approach
emphasizes on cultural heritage preservation, urban environment, urban mobility,
public space and housing, for Curitiba’s Central District.
2 Legal Protection for the Cultural Heritage of Curitiba’s
Central District
The protection of cultural heritage obtained forums of constitutional importance
in Brazil, becoming solid from a broader perspective of environment that includes
natural and artificial heritage, and has a specific normative for urban assets.
The idea that cities generally emerge from a central core where trade exchanges
and institutions of social influence (cultural, religious, and political) occur more
intensively, is widely accepted (Barreto 2010). In the central core of urban areas, one
often sees evidence of the passage of time and the changes that have occurred in the
city, and it was no different in Curitiba. The Central District is located in the central
core of the city, as well as most of the historic real estate of relevant value.
According to Monnet (2000), centrality can have at least the following symbolic
and therefore patrimonial outlines:
(a) Centralised policy: the major political players and their central administration.
(b) Centralised economy: the headquarters of companies.
(c) Centralised trade: location of diverse stores and shops merchandizing products
and services with some kind of exclusivity.
(d) Centralised accessibility: location in the system of traffic and transit of people
and goods, clearly capable of directing the flow from the border to the urban
core.
(e) Centralised sociality: location that originates in the interpolation of more than
two of the mentioned dimensions, resulting in a frequency flow capable of
defining and characterizing the representation of space as a socially mobilized
image and discourse.
In this measure, the central area of Curitiba preserves the largest number of protected buildings in the city (one-Paço da Liberdade-as federal heritage, 47 as state
heritage) in addition to other landscape, art and architecture items (IPPUC 2018),
constituting a cause of human cohesion and imaginaries. On the other hand, a city
is a physical phenomenon, existing in concrete form in a certain period and causing
alteration in the space where it is located. The result of the holistic approach of considering the environment, whose conceptualization in Brazil is recent in the 1980s, is
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of cultural and natural heritage; protection of people in situations of vulnerability;
reduction of negative environmental impact (air quality, waste management); positive
economic, social and environmental relations between urban, peri-urban and rural
areas; national and regional development planning; integrated plans for inclusion,
resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change; resilience to disaster; sustainable and resilient buildings with local materials. The present approach
emphasizes on cultural heritage preservation, urban environment, urban mobility,
public space and housing, for Curitiba’s Central District.
2 Legal Protection for the Cultural Heritage of Curitiba’s
Central District
The protection of cultural heritage obtained forums of constitutional importance
in Brazil, becoming solid from a broader perspective of environment that includes
natural and artificial heritage, and has a specific normative for urban assets.
The idea that cities generally emerge from a central core where trade exchanges
and institutions of social influence (cultural, religious, and political) occur more
intensively, is widely accepted (Barreto 2010). In the central core of urban areas, one
often sees evidence of the passage of time and the changes that have occurred in the
city, and it was no different in Curitiba. The Central District is located in the central
core of the city, as well as most of the historic real estate of relevant value.
According to Monnet (2000), centrality can have at least the following symbolic
and therefore patrimonial outlines:
(a) Centralised policy: the major political players and their central administration.
(b) Centralised economy: the headquarters of companies.
(c) Centralised trade: location of diverse stores and shops merchandizing products
and services with some kind of exclusivity.
(d) Centralised accessibility: location in the system of traffic and transit of people
and goods, clearly capable of directing the flow from the border to the urban
core.
(e) Centralised sociality: location that originates in the interpolation of more than
two of the mentioned dimensions, resulting in a frequency flow capable of
defining and characterizing the representation of space as a socially mobilized
image and discourse.
In this measure, the central area of Curitiba preserves the largest number of protected buildings in the city (one-Paço da Liberdade-as federal heritage, 47 as state
heritage) in addition to other landscape, art and architecture items (IPPUC 2018),
constituting a cause of human cohesion and imaginaries. On the other hand, a city
is a physical phenomenon, existing in concrete form in a certain period and causing
alteration in the space where it is located. The result of the holistic approach of considering the environment, whose conceptualization in Brazil is recent in the 1980s, is