Um "olhar" geográfico sobre a mobilidade e acessibilidade dos deficientes visuais no centro de Santarém/Pará

Abstract

This research consists of analyzing the conditions of mobility and accessibility of the visually impaired in Santarém /PA. In this context, the central area of the city is the chosen spatial area, as it is the main meeting place and reference for displacement to other locations and its implications in daily life, due to the dichotomy between access and barriers that is determinant in locomobility, which leads to production socio-spatial of the urban, evidenced in the contradictions of the appropriation, production and reproduction of the capitalist system and guides the needs of space occupation in the city. This understanding is driven by the hypothesis that urban planning has not fully followed the growth of the Municipality, leaving as secondary the most sensitive issues of adequacy and regulation, driver of claims and struggles, for human dignity, social inclusion, right to the city and autonomy, against segregation, inequality, exclusion and invisibility. With the dialectical materialism method and qualitative approach, which were essential in the preparation and application of the semi-structured questionnaire that made it possible to answer the importance of mobility and accessibility for those involved.