Espaços livres de lazer de Panambi/RS: da análise e percepção à gestão da paisagem

Abstract

Squares and parks are open spaces for leisure and recreation practices, essential for structuring urban life. These environments constitute a landscape and seek to promote sociability (encounter, movement, permanence, rest), scenic appreciation, its use and conservation, exalt environmental potentials, build a local identity, contact with green areas, environmental and life quality for population. In this sense, it becomes important to know the relationship of these areas with the urban fabric and the relationship that is established between the managing organs and with the people who perceive or make use of them. When it is emphasized that studies related to environmental and landscape issues are necessary to provide scientific information and information that contribute to territorial planning, the research has as general objective to understand the influence of the leisure spaces of the Panambi/RS downtown neighborhood in the landscape quality Urban and life of its users, which are: Municipal Park Rudolfo Arno Goldhardt; Square Engineer Walter Faulhaber; Hermann Steiger Square; Emancipation Square; and Immigrant's Square. The work will consider its management and public policies, its physical-environmental aspects, infrastructure, opinion and evaluation of the quality of the landscape, through the landscape preferences of perception of the population. With all this, the research is delimited in investigations and exploratory conceptions - that foresee to expand and to deepen the knowledge on a certain problem and subject in the case the actions of the public power and the free spaces. Subsequently, the research and the perception of the population, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, through two hundred and sixty questionnaires, which provide a validity to the research results and peculiar information / characteristics of the study areas. In this way, the survey / diagnosis of the areas formed a more urgent and relevant composition of recommendations, with the purpose of contributing to the planning / strategy / actions of landscape management, values of valorization as local potentialities, investing in fragilities, enabling better appropriation and identity and promote environmental conservation. It is hoped that a public administration will be evaluated as recommended and carried out by an open space for the life and life of citizens.