Usos e funções do Parque Jardim dos Namorados (Salvador-Bahia)

Abstract

This article considers the landscape from the examination of the elements natural and constructed by understanding that the city constitutes part of the nature. Show the functions of the public space in the city, the influences the district in the diary users. Some conceptual references are considered and argue these questions, from the analysis of the example concrete of a public space, Parque Jardim dos Namorados, situated in Salvador´s seafront has been considered in the recent innovation operations, the district of the Pituba. It shows the process of construction of the space in the end of the decade of 1960, the transformations of this public free space and the landscape of round and the current situation. It approaches the activities of leisure developed by the users. Include diverse parties. Relate the reform of this space in 1999 to the project of reorganization of the Salvador´s seafront and to the return of the users to the Park.