The Conservation of the Landscape in the Perspective of a Public Open Spaces System in Recife

Abstract

This paper presents the relationship between the study of public open spaces and the urban landscape in Recife, according a systemic vision. This relationship is defined with the historical analysis of the natural ecosystems in the site landscape such as rivers, coast vegetation and mangrove, and the atlantic forest, which was occupied by the time. This method was chosen to understand the morphology of open spaces, its typology and which is preserved as natural and cultural heritage. Nowadays, urban water remains in the city space as rivers, lagoons and canals. Preserved natural areas present as a system in the west part of the city and in the urban framework are the isolated open spaces as parks and squares, which can be interrelated in a future urban plan by tree planting in the streets, and landscape design of the rivers and canals margins.