The designated areas for public parks in the outskirts of Uberaba-MG: social uses and urban policy impasses

Abstract

The parks are free spaces, designated and implemented by the government according to specific urban legislation that delimits them based on subdivision rules or socio-environmental interests. In general, these areas are provided for in the Municipal Master Plan, but may result from maneuvers and interests during managements, such as expropriations, for example. The objective of this analysis is to understand, in the city of Uberaba-MG, the current situation of the areas designated parks, but not implemented, their landscape and infrastructure, observing the uses by the population and what the interactions that the different subjects have with the referred spaces. The methodology included bibliographic research, consultations on websites, analysis of municipal legislation, data collection in municipal secretariats, field observations and interviews with the population. As a result, significant public spaces demarcated with the intention of becoming parks were found in the peripheral areas, but which are abandoned, without infrastructure and, sometimes, neglected by various social agents. More than half of the areas designated as parks in Uberaba are not definitively implemented, they constitute idle urban voids in space, although they represent an invaluable socio-environmental potential and are required by the population as a green and leisure area.