A qualificação de calçadas a partir da experiência do design ativo : o caso de Santo Ângelo, RS

Abstract

Walking is an intrinsic activity for the human being, when people walk around they establish relations with the space, knowing or recognizing the territory that circulates. In the cities the place that is destined for the pedestrians to move are the sidewalks, which are perceived by the pedestrians as an urban room, walking through it is possible to understand the space by four planes that surrounds the environment – ground plan, roadside, canopy and building walls. Through this understanding this research has qualitative bias with the objective to investigate the sidewalks of Santo Angelo city by six fundamental aspects of the active design to promote pedestrians movement. The method consists on technical analysis of the space to identify the quality of the sidewalks and relate it to the perception of the pedestrians in plans determined by the research. After perceiving this data through the pedestrian perception and technical files analysis, it was possible to compare studies, identify opportunities and challenges to list priority actions to intervene in this urban space, resulting in possible ways of using this data for urban planning in specific aspects that choose to give preference to the pedestrian, improving issues related to the well-being and people’s health.