Dos lotes públicos às praças: impactos da legislação de parcelamento do solo na criação de espaços públicos em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effect of land subdivision legislation in the implementation of public spaces in Juiz de Fora, considering the size, distribution, and destination of the areas donated to the city in the land subdivision process. Furthermore, this research observed, under the same aspects, the current characteristics of squares and the public open spaces (POS) in the city, which is one of the possible destinations for these areas. For this, it was made a documentary survey of the urban laws, that referred to the public lands (LP), carried out between 1896 and 2014 and a survey of the subdivision map that compose this portioning process in this same period, in order to identify the lands donated to Juiz de Fora city. Through these data, it was possible to create associations of legal requirements with the formation of public spaces in different periods. In order to understand better the influence of the legislations on the urban design, the aspects of the city's current parks and squares were also analyzed. It is concluded that urban legislation acts directly on the land reserve for the implementation of public facilities, but its requirements, restricted to the size of these lands, leave to the administrative management the definitions of distribution, location, and destination without clear guidelines regarding these themes. It was also verified that the city has a low density of ELP that may be reached in a few minutes walking and that the most influential ELPs were constructed in lands acquired outside the land subdivision process.