OCUPANDO PRAÇAS - DISPUTA DE DIREITOS ENTRE A SAÚDE E O LAZER

Abstract

This work is part of the dissertation developed in the Master in Landscape Architecture of PROURB-UFRJ, and started from squatting occupations by public equipment, in the West Zone of the City of Rio de Janeiro. Public spaces must be preserved in their original dimensions and functions, created in order to promote the leisure and well-being of the surrounding population, which are rights provided for in the Brazilian constitution. When, for reasons of necessity, the occupation of these spaces is determined by the public power, it is studied more carefully and comprehensively taking into account all the conflicts inherent in this process. Its general objective was to verify the impacts caused in the insertion of public equipment in squares and to propose design guidelines for future occupations. The methodology adopted for the development of the case study was composed of two stages: in the first the selection of the squares to be studied was made; in the second a mapping was carried out based on historical, physical-urbanistic surveys and of the uses and appropriations by the population. As a result, we elaborate procedure manual when the need to occupy these spaces.