Os shopping centers na configuração das cidades médias: o papel do Brasil Park Shopping no espaço intraurbano de Anápolis-GO

Abstract

The shopping centers are large commercial and service equipment, whose production, in the urban space, contemplates, in general, land and real estate interests related to large enterprises, generating impacts on the structuring of the urban space, which varies according to the size of the planned shopping center. and the city is inserted. The dissertation aims to investigate how the transformations of the urban space of the city of Anápolis, from the implantation of Brasil Park Shopping, how much the space of the city has been transforming and adapting itself to meet the needs created by this new equipment; and how they caused changes in the architectural and urban space, on the building of the city at the same time that it deals with its pre-existences, be they natural, built or cultural. To this end, a discussion is made about the concept, characteristics and typologies of medium-sized cities, as well as an explanation of the definition of shopping centers and their dynamics in those cities. Anápolis, city of the object of study, is presented, evidencing its importance throughout its history, the strength of its economy and its role as an average city. Consequently, studies of Brasil Park Shopping are started, analyzing its context, structure and, mainly, the urban impacts in the intra-urban space of Anápolis. To this end, a questionnaire was applied to users of this equipment, in order to obtain important data to be analyzed to prove such urban impacts, aiming to outline guidelines for future projects of the same type.