The research aims to analyze the impact of uprighting on the quality of urban residential space, using as empirical object spatial snip of four blocks located in the neighborhood of Tambaú, on the east zone of João Pessoa city. The study was developed over in 2011 and the neighborhood in question was chosen because it is undergoing a uprighting process. It was used as a assessment methodological basis the adaptated tool residential space quality (RSQ), resulting in the implementation of the Housing Space Quality Index (Adapted HSQ). It was analyzed the issues that compose the Adapted Index indicators HSQ as: condition of the buildings, quality of relevant space, proximity to the waterfront, interference from vehicle traffic and solar exposure. The research demonstrated that the uprighting and consequent population density might interfere in the quality of urban residential space and consequently in the quality of life of the inhabitants of the place where this process takes place, among other reasons for increasing vehicle traffic and demand for parking; change the presence of vegetation and interfere in the form of solar exposure.
Quality of life; Quality of residential space (QER); Quality of housing space (QEH); Uprighting; Population density