PARQUES URBANOS E A PROBLEMÁTICA DOS ESPAÇOS DE LAZER NÃO IMPLANTADOS EM UBERABA-MG

Abstract

Parks are public spaces of local government responsibility and have important environmental, social and economic functions in the urban areas. In this article, the focus is to understand the parks in the urban sociospatial context of the city of Uberaba-MG. It presents maps of the parks in the urban area, related of income data and rented residence; explains aspects of public politics and governmental management regarding interventions in the parks implanted and even; demonstrates general condition of those not implemented. The work was based on bibliographic research, consultations in websites, analysis of city legislation, data collection in the city departments, field observations in the parks and interviews with the population. The results show that the parks implemented are more centralized in urban area and worsen several problems than compromises its uses. However, in peripheric areas there are many demarcated public spaces with the intention to be transformed in parks, but that are abandoned, without infrastructure and sometimes, denied by various social agents. More than half of the designated park area in Uberaba is not definitively implanted, exist only in paper, constituting empty urban voids in space, unknown by the general population, although they represent invaluable social-environmental potential.