ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT (PER) OF SHOPPING BARIGUI (CURITIBA/PR) BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE PLANNING

Abstract

The Landscape Planning applied to the urbanized environment has as a principle the maintenance or improvement of urban environmental quality, which can be decreased with the increasing installation of enterprises in the city. To evaluate the environmental impacts of these enterprises before their installation, the brasilian federal act established the Preliminary Study of Neighborhood Impact. The city of Curitiba performs environmental impact studies of enterprises and its activities since 1997, with the Previous Environmental Report (PER). The objective of this study was to analyze the PER of Shopping Barigui (Curitiba, PR) based on the principles of Landscape Planning and thereby provide subsidies to reflect on the possibility of an urban planning that considers the environmental quality. For the evaluation it was defined criteria and parameters based on studies of Urban Environmental Quality, in studies on healthy cities of the World Health Organization and principles of Permaculture Flower. The defined criteria were: non-built-up spaces, Vegetation Cover, Verticality of Buildings, Uses Potentially Polluters, Healthy Life Styles and Ecological Footprint. Despite of treating about some negative environmental impacts of superficial form, the study do not include the vast majority of negative environmental impacts related to Urban Environmental Quality and still provided favorable diagnostic to enterprise. These diagnostic was accepted by the government that allowed the installation of enterprise, which resulted in reducing urban environmental quality.