Banca de DEFESA: MARCUS VINICIUS DE CARVALHO ROCHA

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STUDENT : MARCUS VINICIUS DE CARVALHO ROCHA
DATE: 28/08/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: sala de videconferência
TITLE:

TOWARDS THE BAHIAN HINTERLANDS: The impact of the Milton Santos highway on the morphology of urban centers

KEY WORDS:

BR-242; Bahia; space syntax; Urban History; urban morphogenesis.

PAGES: 236
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the morphological impact of the Milton Santos Highway (BR-242) on the development of urban centers in Bahia. The central objective is to diachronically analyze how this road macro-infrastructure has reconfigured the socio-spatial logic of cities across five mesoregions, evaluating whether the highway was incorporated or rejected by the urban fabrics. Grounded primarily in the concepts of Milton Santos and David Harvey, the research utilizes the Theory of the Social Logic of Space, developed by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson, as a theoretical and methodological analytical tool to measure patterns of connectivity, topological accessibility, centrality and choice. The methodology adopts an inductive approach that articulates Urban History with configurational processing in five representative cities of the mesoregions: Salinas da Margarida (Salvador Metropolitan Area), Itaberaba (North-Central), Seabra (South-Central), Ibotirama (São Francisco Valley), and Luís Eduardo Magalhães (Far West). The analysis revealed that the impact of the BR-242 varies according to the genesis of each nucleus, demonstrating a progressive transition from original structuring agents (sea, rivers, railroads, and drover paths) toward a common highway centrality. Synchronically, the configurational index results show a convergence of the analyzed cities with the national average, suggesting that, despite historical disparities, urban consolidation produces recurrent spatial behaviors. As the main original contribution, this work proposes the concept of urban assimilation, using the biological analogy of phagocytosis to describe the process through which the city appropriates and internalizes the highway into its intra-urban dynamics. This phenomenon is systematized into five stages: autonomy, approximation, adhesion, engulfment, and homeostasis. The study concludes that the Milton Santos Highway acts as a potent functional magnet that, when assimilated even before its effective incorporation into the urban fabric, governs the redistribution of flows and induces the displacement of new active centers. This study fills gaps in Bahian urban historiography and provides an operational model for understanding the integration between large regional infrastructures and the morphology of medium and small cities in the Brazilian interior

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ANTONIO MUNIZ DOS SANTOS FILHO - UNEB
Presidente - 1113769 - ANA PAULA CAMPOS GURGEL
Interno - ***.356.794-** - FREDERICO ROSA BORGES DE HOLANDA - UnB
Interno - ***.541.874-** - VALERIO AUGUSTO SOARES DE MEDEIROS - UnB