A Distribuição espaço-temporal e avaliação qualitativa das praças e parques urbanos de Dourados-MS

Abstract

Public spaces are places for the exercise of citizenship and promoters of social interaction. For that matter, investigating public spaces, here defined as urban squares and parks, from the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, is necessary to understand the current scenario and if they fulfill their duties, providing life quality for its citizens among an increasingly restricted and individualist society. For this, a historical review of Dourados’ territorial expansion was held, correlating the building and implementing of urban squares and parks since 1950 to 2019 decades, pointing out on going processes and revealing new environment changers subjects, after this stage a characterization of public spaces was held from the qualitative assessment of their infrastructure in 2018. The developed maps over this project allowed the carried out analyses, due the possibility of an information view addressed to the spatial cutout, facilitating the understanding. After this process, the unequal distribution of urban squares and parks in Dourados’ urban environment was evident, besides the special attention from the municipal public authorities to the performed maintenance. Through this research, it could be noted that, compared to the West part of the city, the East part has less amount of public squares and parks, specially the southwestern edge which has lack of public spaces. The Northwest area stood out from the others as the best equipped one, receiving more attention from the public authorities.