The duality of urban mobility as a heterogeneous phenomenon in the construction of sustainable living space in cities: A look at the inference of poverty in the City of Campina Grande, Brazil

The use of statistical and georeferenced tools helps to explain the differentiation of urban mobility given the pre-existing urban configuration in cities. The city of Campina Grande-Brazil, object of this study, is characterized by the prevalence of dual elements such as the growing demographic explosion and the new layout of urban strata in terms of the smart cities concept. That said, the on-screen analysis comprises the existing mobility system, demonstrating how the current space influences the potential for movement in different social strata through the Theory of Spatial Syntax. The research used the Geographic Information System-GIS, processed through Depthmap® and QGIS in the production of spatial syntactic measures in neighborhoods combined with socioeconomic variables. In this study, it was concluded that the method identified in the central areas, with a high concentration of middle and upper income, a format more conducive to the use of the car, while in the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of vulnerable population, a system that favors walking predominates and the use of bicycle and motorcycle. The public transport system could have a more efficient coverage, since it presents itself as a restrictive factor of circular cause of local poverty, although it has the potential to be a driver of the local economic dynamism to favor the increase of income in the most vulnerable and spatially segregated.