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10.4000/ephaistos.5465

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10.4000/ephaistos.5465

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Historical windows on the roles of green spaces in city plans: Curitiba in Brazil, Monterrey, Mexico

Abstract

The twentieth century town planning is strongly linked to territory development. For city technician designers, the environmental flap was first present in the form of squares, parks and gardens. Thus, the modern came, carrying the hygienist ideology, a restorative virtue of health and well-being, and at the same time, the mutation of human nature. Despite the image of natural green remained as an important element of the urban landscape, the functions of these spaces have changed and also the terms that named them, some recovered from biology, such as ecology, sustainable green spaces and other. The context of this article takes up the political conflicts regarding urban green spaces' design concepts as public spaces appropriate for citizens. The political choices to revitalize and equip them with infrastructures and constructions, punctuated by agreements with the private sector, present two views on the urban windows : (1) transformation of the green space into consumption space, which can have harmful consequences for the city, or (2) burn to ashes of their amusement role, water supply, air, temperature, and biodiversity. Who are the political actors responsible for maintaining its value, cleanliness and usefulness? To reflect on this question, as by looking through historical windows and visual sequences, we rely on two case studies: Curitiba in Brazil, and Monterrey in Mexico. Using the bibliographic references obtained, and compilation of information collected by the authors, during visits to the sites and learning to look at the city, we conclude that the roles of public green spaces available in cities are more defined today by its different functions, and that they are threatened with extinction and no longer being part of ecosystems. We believe that although green spaces are more associated with public and private interests, maintenance and amusement than with hygienist thinking and the macrocosm of human nature, they may be part of the goals of sustainability and represent an environmental heritage. The battle continues to reverse the political trends of no longer conceiving them as public space, to reduce them in size or to eliminate them from the urban space.

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