Smart cities: análise do vazio urbano no centro de Aracaju/Sergipe

Abstract

The exaggerated urban expansion constituted by current urban planning and intensified by retail speculation is a big concern faced by cities. However, they also suffer with the urban emptying of consolidated areas, either by abandonment of buildings, empty lands or underutilization of them. Thus, the term urban emptyness comes to light. On the other side, the world advances technologically, so, to accompany this progress, the concept of smart city gains field, being an answer for the social, economic and environmental problems that cities confront, especially for this paper, as a form of circumvent the question of urban emptiness. Thus, the city of Aracaju/Sergipe was studied because it faced the emptying of its consolidated area, bringing as a counterpart the concept of the smart city, as means to catalyze improvement of the constructive potential, also improving energy efficiency and sustainability.