Parque ecológico Domingos Zanette: requalificação e lazer para um novo olhar sobre a cidade de Santa Terezinha de Itaipu

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the importance of urban parks to the city and what factors lead the population to effectively use them, having as object of study the Domingos Zanette Ecological Park located in the city of Santa Terezinha de Itaipu, in the west of Paraná. The urban parks cause a series of benefits in the place where they are inserted and through the exercise of their social function, they can generate the quality of life of the user population. The object of study in question is currently underutilized, so the purpose of this work is to understand by means of literary revision and interpretation of the local reality the reasons that led to the disuse of the park. On-site surveys were carried out for the observation of the urban constitution, besides the application of an online questionnaire for the inhabitants of the city, seeking a complete understanding of the conditions. The analysis of the results, as well as the case studies presented and the current conditions of the park, help in the development of the design guidelines in order to propose the requalification of the site in order to restore its functions that were lost due to underutilization. In this way the requalification to be proposed, the main object of study of this research, plays a significant role within the city of Santa Terezinha de Itaipu, since it has the capacity to reestablish the use of the park and thus to add quality of life to the citizens of Itaipu and attract new glances over the city.