Banca de DEFESA: MATHEUS DOS SANTOS

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STUDENT : MATHEUS DOS SANTOS
DATE: 08/05/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

URBAN MOBILITY FRONT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ARACAJU: THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND HEALTH

KEY WORDS:

inequality; Covid-19; urban mobility; public transportation; Aracaju.

PAGES: 176
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The Covid-19 pandemic drastically impacted urban dynamics, especially during the
period between 2020 and 2022. The closure of shops, services and other attractions, which
influence individual and collective motivations for moving people, within and between cities
cities, opened up one of the great and old problems present in Brazilian society, the
socioeconomic inequalities that permeate everyday relationships, such as those at work, which
can be translated, visually, into the image of different vulnerable social groups, clustered in
stations and within modes of public transport, aiming to access the formal city and obtain the
necessary economic income to survive in the concrete jungles. In short, Brazilian municipalities
presented a paradigm in the behavior of Covid-19 on territories, consisting of two stages: the
first with the initial number of cases registered in the most consolidated regions; while in the
second stage, there is a decline in the number of new cases in this region, while there is an
uncontrolled growth of cases of the disease in peripheral regions, accompanied by a sharp
increase in deaths from the disease. Thus, the objective of this work is to understand the
influence of inequalities, reflected in public transport, for the dissemination and lethal effects
of Covid-19, in the peripheral areas of Aracaju. The methodology adopted to achieve this
objective was to carry out a set of data collection, among them: the urban mobility present in
the Master Plan for Urban Mobility of Aracaju (PMDU) of 2015; socioeconomic information
present in the 2010 IBGE Demographic Census; of the daily and accumulated records of cases
and deaths due to Covid-19, made available by the Municipal Secretary of Health of Aracaju
and the Secretary of State for Health of Sergipe. The data collection together with the analysis
of studies already carried out during the pandemic period in question and that connected the
themes of urban mobility, Covid-19 and the various faces of inequality, allowed the formation
of an argument, to question the possibility of the unequal effects, present in the raw data of the
disease by neighborhoods of the capital of Aracaju, being related to the inequalities reflected in
the daily urban dynamics of the peripheral residents, especially public transport, which involves
much more than the path A to B, but the provision of equipment and its accessibility, the places
of origin and destination, the distances, the conditions under which these trips are made.
Therefore, this dissertation begins by discussing the right to the city, in order to understand the
possible negative impacts of urban immobility on the most vulnerable population. Secondly, it
addresses the socioeconomic issues of the neighborhoods of Aracaju and the processes that
acted and continue to act for the territorial disposition of urban attractions. And finally, the
analysis of the data collected, referring to urban mobility and Covid-19, showed a possible
relationship between the spread of cases of the disease, with the displacement of people through
public transport, as well as the unequal effects of lethality, related to the provision of health
equipment and socioeconomic conditions in the neighborhoods and zones of Aracaju.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2332875 - DEBORA DE BARROS CAVALCANTI FONSECA
Externo(a) à Instituição - HELENA MENDONÇA FARIA - UNIFEI - UNI
Interno(a) - 1647400 - JULIANA MICHAELLO MACEDO DIAS
Externo(a) à Instituição - NEISON CABRAL FERREIRA FREIRE - FUNDAJ
Interno(a) - 1752658 - RICARDO VICTOR RODRIGUES BARBOSA