Caracterização dos impactos provocados pelo turismo na paisagem urbana do centro histórico de São Luiz do ParaitingaSP, entre 2002 e 2007

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/03/2008

RESUMO

This work aims to characterize the possible impacts caused by the development of tourism on the urban landscape of the Historical Centre in São luiz do Paraitinga, in the period of 2002 and 2007. This characterization implies in the identification and analysis of impacts on the urban structure and on the building group, essential components of the urban landscape in transformation within in this period. The city is located in the Vale do Paraíba, on road SP 125 Rodovia Dr. Oswaldo Cruz between the cities of Taubaté and Ubatuba. Considering tourism as an activity in which people stay in a certain place, it is an activity that causes positive and negative impacts. Presently tourism is growing in São Luiz do Paraitinga, where tourist activity started in an unplanned way around the year of 1980, when the city was discovered as a tourist destination by the first travelers attracted mainly by the city culture. Two facts are remarkable in the tourism development of São Luiz do Paraitinga: the rescue of the street carnival in 1981 and the Historical Centre Protection Department by CONDEPHAAT in 1982. The principal type of tourism enjoyed in the city is the cultural one, having the urban landscape an essential attractive factor owing to the importance of its old Architecture and the historical urban landscape. As a milestone of the tourism development in São Luiz do Paraitinga is the promotion of the city to a Touristic Resort in the State of São Paulo in 2002, what brought resources to São Luiz to help develop facilities for the improvement of tourism. Furthermore, the city was discovered by the media and started to be acknowledged and known as the territory of carnival songs, or as the carnival songs city. As to the urban landscape of the Historical Centre, it can be we noticed that is has been undergoing a tourist process, through the new urban infrastructure constructions or by the modification in the protected buildings, either due to remodeling or the enlargement of the buildings constructed area. These changes in the components of the urban landscape have as an objective the preparation of the city for the tourist consumption of places, that is, the landscape of the Historic Centre has been remodeled as a tourist resource, that, at the moment acquires a new economic use and value.

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turismo paisagem urbana turismo são luiz do paraitinga patrimônio histórico tourism urban landscape são luiz of paraitinga historical heritage

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