Accessbiblity and surrounding as guidelines of public open spaces

Abstract

The research aims to understand and explore ideas linked to “potential educator of public spaces” with an emphasis on accessibility and relationships with the environment, studying an area in the city of Sorocaba-SP, AICE-member International Association of Educating Cities, now coordinator of this Association in Brazil. Were surveyed its public spaces through the “Roadmap Educator” which subdivided the city into scenarios that emphasize four themes: cultural, historical, social and ecological. This process was cut the “Water Park”, belonging to the Ecological Roadmap Educator, trying to understand its potential qualities educators linked to spatial features. Marked by these parameters was sought to emphasize compositional elements of public space as analytical tools to investigate possible interference urban design standards of the urban fabric as a whole, trying to unveil educators qualities inherent to space, understanding that the propositions of urban design in free areas may interfere as structuring agents of quality in public areas as a whole, improving the public sphere of life.