The landscape and the urban public open space system: a necessary integration to the planning of the EFAPI region - Chapecó/SC - Brazil

Abstract

This paper highlights the necessary integration between the study of the landscape and the system of urban public open spaces for city planning and management. Its objective is to analyze and characterize the landscape of the neighborhood of Bairro Efapi - Chapecó-SC, showing the constitution of its public free spaces as an articulating element of the city. The methodological approach, carried out through field surveys and mapping by geoprocessing, is structured in the analysis of a macro planning units and their subdivisions into Landscape Units (UP). The results show that the characterization of the six Landscape Units showed that the ecological and cultural problems of land use and occupation are worsening, given the urban expansion of a housing nature, intensified by the implementation of large industrial and institutional structures. The public free spaces identified were the street, the green area and the square, which are insufficient to meet the needs of the local population, as well as constituting a system capable of mediating the impacts of urbanization. The urban requalification strategies are therefore focused on the articulation of public open spaces with ecological sensitive protection areas, such as APPs, Green Areas and private vegetated areas, through the landscape requalification of the road system.