O LUGAR DO ESPAÇO PÚBLICO NO PLANEJAMENTO URBANO: diretrizes e propostas para o Plano Diretor de Varginha-MG

Abstract

This work consists of making an analysis of the public spaces of Varginha and outlining some basic guidelines on the growth model that the city should adopt at the level of urban planning based on more social and economic aspects. In the Master Plan there are no diagnoses, studies or concrete proposals of actions to make policies and projects feasible for public spaces. As there is no concern for the city at eye level, human scale, social interaction, this work makes an urban analysis of the public spaces of Varginha, to propose political and projective guidelines of urban planning, through knowledge of notions of public place; knowledge of urban planning concepts; understanding of public space discourse in the urban planning trajectory; survey of public spaces such as case studies; application of urban analysis of the public spaces of Varginha; and the proposition of the directives themselves. At the end, this paper presents a proposal for intervention in Praça Dr. José de Rezende Paiva, applying some strategies in order to reach the proposed guidelines, with constant focus on the quality of the place and the concern to make it a multifunctional, heterogeneous space , welcoming, that provides the meeting.