Percepções e experiências do usuário no Parque Municipal de Belo Horizonte: estrutura, uso e manutenção

Abstract

In order to knowing the values experienced ongreen areas of urban leisure implies toanalysis of the geographical-spatial since where this practice takes place. The observation of those population practices, it is distinguished in the space-time (Certeau, 1994);in the lived and the perceived: concepts presented by Lefebvre (1991). Based on the relationship between space-time and lived-perceived, 30 collections, through participant observation, were carried out in the Municipal Park of the city of Belo Horizonte. In an exploratory way,the objective of this article is to know the daily life and the experiences of the users in this free space of leisure. Observedto the means of reportsof perception and the experiencelived by the visitor of an urban green park. The results confirm (i) the contemporaneousness of identity thinking in space (Foucault, 1977), (ii) confirm that spatial practices influence representations, (iii) urban space organization (BOURDIEU, 1996) and(iv) urban practices in space and time (BACHELARD, 1929). This study contributions take place on how it can evidence the positive and negative evaluations of users measuredby three parameters: Structure, Uses and Maintenance