Maria Clélia Lustosa Costa

Teorias médicas e gestão urbana: a seca de 1877-79 em Fortaleza

Down through the nineteenth century, new medical theories on the origin of disease influenced the norms and regulations that controlled the populations behavior and the urban space. The present study discusses the ideas, medical practices , and administrative initiatives adopted during the 1877-79 drought in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará province. The drought was accompanied by a smallpox epidemic, along with the increased migration of sertão dwellers to the capitol. The city lacked a public service network capable of meeting the needs of this new population, which took up lodgings on the city and periphery. The municipal administration endeavored to implement the recommendations of physicians based on modern principles of hygienization. Through an analysis of reports by the provincial presidents and by public health inspectors, the study intends to show how these medical theories influenced the practices of urban reorganization at a moment of public emergency.

Vulnerabilidade socioambiental do baixo curso da bacia hidrográfica do Rio Cocó, Fortaleza-CE

The following study is about the vulnerability environmental, social and socio environmental of down progress of Coco rivers watershed, at Fortaleza-CE. The methodology has been based in the use of Geographic Information Systems to the preparation and integration of geology maps, geomorphology, vegetation, vegetation, urban infrastructure and economic and social information with the view to get the natural vulnerability, environmental, social and finally the socio environmental. The results indicate that the environments of high environmental vulnerability coexist with the high social vulnerability, expanding the socio environmentals problems of those spaces. The vulnerability mapping aims to contribute to the urban-environmental planning of watershed down progress and this sense the Geoinformation System has been primordial to itself spatialization.

O papel do North Shopping no processo de integração metropolitana de Fortaleza e Caucaia

This research aims to analyze role of North Shopping as a integrator of the Fortaleza Metropolitan Region, more specifically betwen Caucaia and Fortaleza. The North Shopping was opened in 1991, located in the zone west of Fortaleza. This study of regional approach, analyzing the pendulum movement between Fortaleza and Caucaia due to work and school, find in the activities of trade, services and leisure, plus an element to justify the intensification of population movement everyday. We conclude that this mall has contributed to strengthening the relationship between Fortaleza and Caucaia