Parque da Democracia

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis is a study about Open Space Systems, its qualities, and analyses its presence in the city Fortaleza. It proposes the introduction of an urban indicator as a goal for public administration to develop cities. It develops a Urban Park design, the Park of Democracy, inside a degraded and underutilized site in a central area of the city, supplying it with sports, culture, ecological and contemplative programming and uses some green infrastructure methods, such as wetlands. The Park of Democracy, in the Design Science Research methodology, is the object that solves several found pathologies in the city, such as the absence of green open spaces for public use, the absence of sports and cultural equipment in the city, the deficiency in ecological education for the citizens, the absence of urban agricultural productive sites, urban water pollution, among others. Installing the park would rise the introduced indicator value significantly in the area immediately affected, but in the context of Fortaleza, where this kind of space is rare, it makes it obvious that more parks are necessary