ANÁLISE E DIAGNÓSTICO DOS PARQUES URBANOS EM MARINGÁ (PR) BRASIL

Abstract

Man has through times tried to increase his intellectual, scientific and technological development by means of several civilizations and c ultures that imposed the transformation of the natural environment, resultin g in environmental and social problems. In the urban environment, the human inter ventions have resulted in increasing environmental disequilibrium, due to def orestation, increase of soil waterproof index, water, air and soil visual and so und pollution, flood, temperature elevation, heat islands formation, irregular deposi tion of solid waste, lack of green areas, etc. Another evident problem in the cities h as to do with the lack of public leisure areas, resulting in the decrease of the urban life quality. It is in this sense that the creation and maintenance of urban parks contribute to the softening of the surveyed problems, since the green areas are important for t he attainment of a good life quality in the urban environment, besides its ecological, aest hetical and humanistic value, enlarging the representation of the place and natur e in the city. It is in this context, that the present research makes an analysis and diagnosi s of the urban parks in Maringa (PR) Brazil