Os espaços verdes na história do Recife

Abstract

The aim of this work is to start the debate about the evaluation of the greenery in the city of Recife as part of the landscape character of the regions taking into account the Recife Open Spaces Research in 2000. This evaluation is based on the landscape structure lines: the Capibaribe river, the protected green areas and the coast. Each of them is marked by a specific vegetation such as the mangrove, the atlantic forest species and the coconut trees. The other types of open spaces such as parks, squares, gardens are distributed in the urban space without any articulation between them and the landscape structure lines. Two aspects have conducted this first evaluation: the identification of the landscape structure lines and the rescue of the aesthetic and ecological principles from the oldest landscape designs which focusing the green spaces articulation. So, it shows that landscape has not maintained and conserved as it should, and the city passed to be planned in a" micro" scale creating isolated small open spaces without any articulation inside dense built space. The intention to rescue the green spaces is seeking an articulation between the small open spaces and the landscape structure lines. In this way, the evaluation of green spaces concerns a methodology which considers the" macro" scale focusing the landscape structure lines and the regions of the city, and the" micro" scale focusing the quarters and small open spaces, creating natural and cultural historical references and their articulation.