Usos e apropriações dos espaços públicos no bairro de Pernambués, Salvador-BA

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the following theme: uses and appropriations in the public space nowadays, with Praça Arthur Lago and Madeireira Brotas in the Pernambués neighborhood in Salvador/BA as study space cutouts. The main objective is to analyze, identify and map the uses and appropriations found in the public spaces studied. The specific objectives are: analyze how people use and appropriate these public spaces; assess the relevance of these spaces in the context of the neighborhood and identify, through mapping, the changes in uses identified in the day and night shifts. The methodology used to carry out this work was a set of actions that resulted in the mapping of the uses that people make of the studied public spaces and the changes in these uses in the transition between the day and night periods. This set of actions refers to a systematic field research; field book generation; recording of observations, interviews and conversations (informal, without the use of questionnaires or tape recorders) with people who use the public spaces studied; creation of a geospatial database; mapping, quantifying and qualifying the types of uses found in the field and generating thematic maps identifying the changes found in the day and night shifts. Madeireira Brotas and Praça Arthur Lago were chosen because they are important public spaces, references in the historical and symbolic construction of the neighborhood, because they have an intense street commerce and different uses and appropriations among the people who occupy these spaces. Spaces where there is a redefinition of social actions and practices and the construction of territorialities. The central theoretical framework of this research is focused on the discussion of public space, with thematic axes on: the neighborhood as a category of analysis; the relationship between the public space and the city; the issue of uses and appropriations practiced in the neighborhood context; and the territorialities identified in the public spaces in question. The results found were a diversity of uses and appropriations of informal trade, with emphasis on the sectors of food and beverage identified and mapped in the day and night shifts; Different territorialities were identified in the two public spaces studied through the observation of the pattern of uses that people make when passing shifts (day/night). It was also found that Pernambués has a strong African influence from the quilombola groups that inhabited the neighborhood shortly before the 1960s; it is a heterogeneous neighborhood with two very distinct socioeconomic profiles, spatially differentiated between the west and east portions, where there are, respectively, families with better, worse purchasing power.