The land use and the participation of commercial and service activities in the city center

This paper aims to show how the activities of the tertiary sector are distributed in city center and therefore within the city of Londrina. To obtain more information the city’s center land use and occupation was studied and compared with the 90′s existing data. The research showed that the urban center′s perimeter was enlarged and that the activities were intensified in some regions. The obtained results were mapped permitting to verify how commercial activities and services have expanded. It was also possible to better understand the dynamics of land use and occupation in the studied area.