THE CENTRAL-SOUTH AXIS OF BRASÍLIA EXPANSION: DISPERSION, EMPTIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE - 1984 to 2017

Abstract

Unlike other Brazilian cities, Brasília was born dispersed, configured by several urban centers in addition to the Plano Piloto, perhaps even before the phenomenon of metropolitan dispersion started in other regions of the country. If Brasília was born dispersed by the territorial organization in satellite cities, this process has been accentuated and diversified in the last decades, when new areas were (or are being) urbanized, but with urban types very different from those originally planned, often in disagreement with the official guidelines established by territorial planning. Thus, Brasília, considered in this research as a unique municipality whose political territory corresponds to the Federal District, is historically related to urban dispersion, but also to contemporary processes of metropolization, followed by the occupation of territorial voids between the existing urban centers and, modifying deeply into the urban and social landscape. The object of study of this research is the central-south axis, a vector of urban expansion with rapid growth in the last decades, which has drastically modified the natural landscape with the proliferation of walled closed condominiums and new areas aimed at agricultural activities in areas of environmental relevance . The study debates these transformations of the landscape based on data on the history of urbanization provided by the Secretariat of Urbanization and Housing - SEDUH, available on the GEOportal platform and data on land cover provided by the Federal District Planning Company (CODEPLAN). When analyzing the transformations of the landscape in the centersouth axis, the work points out issues for the territorial planning of the area and the metropolis, being relevant in view of the revision works of the Master Plan for Territorial Planning of the DF - PDOT / DF, in progress since 2019 .