Estudo e avaliação dos parques urbanos e áreas livres da cidade de Maringá - Paraná

Abstract

The urban parks are spaces that, from their origins, are very important for the cities. The landscape compositions are full of history, which influences parks and other open spaces until the present times and at different places, including Maringá. The arise of the main Maringá parks is directly linked to their openning project, and currently several free areas in the city, as well as the valley bottoms, have extremely noble potential for the creation of new parks, but have not been exploited in their entirety. Based on these factors, some analyzes were carried out about some national and international reference parks, which, with the research related to Maringá's parks, are the bases of the information presented in this article. In this way, the objective of this developing texts is to find free areas with the greatest potential for revitalization and implantation of new parks. In fact, the conclusions consist on extreme importance information for the accomplishment of the objective, as the activities that the city’s public considers as essential, as the identification the city’s zone that most need these activities.