Metodologia para criação de dicionários de elementos urbanos para praças de João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

The present work has its origins in the concern about the heterogeneity of the preservation of the public squares and its urban elements in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. It presents data and thoughts about the management of public spaces, the use of dictionaries and manuals about architecture along the history and concepts related to sustainability, with the aim to observe the utility of merging these themes and forms of presentation into an educational instrument of help for processes of communitarian initiative for construction of public spaces, or for participatory processes starred by the community and assisted by architecture and urban design professionals.