O mobiliário urbano na ativação dos espaços livres públicos: Um estudo de caso do Parque Parahyba I, João Pessoa/ PB

Abstract

In the contemporany urban context, it is possible to observe in many Western cities transformations in public open spaces considered as without "urban life", caused by small-scale interventions, through furniture, which produces significant improvements, such as the attraction of people to these places by (re)activing these spaces. Thus, this research focuses on the relationship of furniture of an urban park in the city of João Pessoa-PB with its users, seeking to understand the activation level of this place, taking into consideration the hypothesis that there are three activation levels ranging from superficial to deep. Taking to Parahyba Park I as a case study in this research, we used an analysis method that establishes three distinct dimensions of study: open public spaces, furniture and users, whitch were individually analyzed using set up before indicators in the method and of quantitative parameters of the attribute tables. The results indicate that urban furniture acts as an instrument to reach different levels of activation in space, and may even reach activation that leads to the sense of ‘common urban’ through specific actions of citizenship in the park.