Urbanidade em praças e parques: transformação das relações socioespaciais em ciclos pandêmicos

Abstract

The present research aims to propose alternative strategies for the occupation of public open spaces, specifically squares and parks, considering the possibility of new pandemic cycles. It brings a reflection on the resumption of public spaces in the postpandemic period of Covid-19, which started in 2019, and which has its peak in the current year. In methodological terms, principles inherent to accessibility and urban mobility are used, specifically aspects related to permanence (conviviality) and passages (circulation), which unfold into evaluation criteria under the theoretical support of Space Syntax and the ICam tool which scores indices of Walkability. As a case study of the research, Parque Orla do Guaíba, located in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, was used because it is a popular living space with different uses that received an intense flow of people in the post-pandemic period. The extensive waterfront has aspects of socio-spatial analysis (pavements for pedestrians, bike paths, open multipurpose spaces, multi-sports courts) that make it possible to simulate scenarios of occupation of spaces that suit future similar scenarios of socio-spatial restriction. The results obtained indicate that the strategies traced after the application of the software Depthmap (which analyzes the spatial syntax) and iCam (which analyzes the walkability index) transform the urbanity of space, attesting to the effectiveness of this urban redesign for future applications.