Modelos de gestão de parques no Brasil: um estudo exploratório.

Abstract

This article aims to identify and analyze the management models of urban parks found in Brazil. Having conducted an exploratory study on the origin and historical evolution of urban parks, we sought to present the premises that culminated in the policy of urban parks the way it is known today. Through bibliographic, documentary and eletronic research. Following a logical line, the uses and definitions of parks in contemporary times were presented in order to explain what the current literature proposes on the subject, as well as the social and economic implications that permeate politics. The public administration models adopted in Brazil will also be presented in order to correport their practices to the park management models that are addressed in sequence. Finally, by emphasizing the relevance of urban parks for quality of life and social well-being, the study discusses urban parks as tools for transformation and production of urban space, being inserted in a well-planned and sustainable urbanization context, highlighting that as far as their forms of investment and maintenance are the diffuse public interests' has contributed to the increase of management models by private partnerships, impairing the use and access to these spaces.