Áreas verdes como espaços públicos: diretrizes para a restruturação do Parque Ecológico da Lagoa da Jansen, em São Luís – MA

Abstract

The urban parks are public spaces that indicate environment quality, they are essential urbanistic areas for urban living, with remarkable presence on cities arrangement, considering it ́s versatility for society utilization, the parks represent relevant elements, both cultural and historical. In the city of São Luís there ́s a lack of urban parks and some of them are unfrequented, because they don ́t attend the real necessities for users and are in deteriorate state duo to the lack of maintenance. The Jansen Lagoon is product of several actions from public administration, and these actions were ruled by distinct scope: urbanistic, landscaped, environmental, sanitarian, and sporty, that result on the actual Ecological Park of Jansen Lagoon. Starting from visits, it was possible to verify that the place find itself abandon and very unfrequented, therefore doesn’t fulfill it ́s purpose for the urban environment. This paper propose guidelines for the restoration of the Ecological Park of Jansen Lagoon, in order to reach these goals it was perform literature review and posteriorly visits to the place, using some tools from the post-occupational evaluation (POE), were analyzed from the constructive to the behavioral aspects, it was made use of online surveys in order to know the opinion and satisfaction of the citizens about the quantitative and qualitative aspects of Ecological Park of Jansen Lagoon. Thereby, this study assists for adequacy and maintenance of the urban public space.