Recuperated landscape - qualify design for "Nossa Senhora da Luz Square in Salvador - BA

Abstract

Nowadays open public spaces have played much more intensively as life place and as urban landscape. There is a world tendency to catch the great importance of open public spaces as building landscapes also not forgetting the users of these places. Open spaces remodeling strategies has been implemented in al world, including Brazil, using the “recuperated city” new concept that is amplified to “recuperated landscape”. This work aims to reinforce the importance of open public spaces landscape and discusses an example of square in Pituba District of Salvador-BA. This square like many others in Salvador had lost environmental quality in less than four decades and had become an abandoned space almost without use. This work wants to related landscape design to users showing how to recuperate landscape in urban context.