Comunidade Lagoa do Coração: infraestrutura verde na prevenção à violência

Abstract

The violent crime is a serious social and economic problem, requiring large government investment to maintain public and prison security systems. Beyond the direct confrontation with crime, strategies and programs of prevention and reductions of damages are applied to fight with violence causes. In this context, since the 60’s, theories started to be formulated to show how the design of urban spaces can contribute to the cities safety. Despite urban design does not reach all the social classes of violence, it can be combined with security public policies, education, and social-cultural initiatives for social development of a region and generation of public spaces more accessible and democratic. This work discusses the contribution of urbans projects and management of public spaces to improve the public security, understanding that the violence is a phenomenon that needs a multidisciplinary approach to perception and prevention. Having the city of Fortaleza as a scenario, intent to comprehend the theories that relate urban space to crime, and analise what are the territories of action of the present security public policies. One of these territories is chosen for the development of an urban project using the green structure as an urbanization strategy due to the impacts that it shows on the crime rates of areas where it was used. From the analysis of the problems and potentialities of the intervention area, proposals for spatial ordering are elaborated that actively contribute to prevention of violence by encouraging the diversity of uses and turn the public space inviting to users.