Pessoas em situação de rua nas paisagens das praças do Ferreira e Doutor Moreira de Souza, Fortaleza – CE, 2021 a 2023

Abstract

Throughout the undergraduate course in Geography at the Federal University of Ceará - UFC, we see several concepts, many are used since childhood, but without knowing what they really mean, such as Urban Landscape and Urban Space. The squares are also present in our daily lives since childhood, no matter if you live in country towns or in the capitals and their metropolitan regions. Two squares in Fortaleza are very present in my daily life, Praça do Ferreira, in the Centro neighborhood and Praça Doutor Moreira de Souza, in the Meireles neighborhood. Another element that is often present in our daily lives are the homeless people. So this work consists of addressing the relationships that exist between the concepts of Urban Landscape, Urban Space, the two squares mentioned above and homeless people. Its main objective is to understand the changes in the urban landscape of Praça do Ferreira and Praça Doutor Moreira de Souza and the relationships that homeless people have with them. And as secondary objectives: a) To look historically at the changes that these squares have undergone over the years; b) To elucidate the motivations of homeless people for choosing these two squares; c) To verify what changes these people make in the landscape of the squares. To achieve these objectives, bibliographic research was used to describe the changes that occurred in the landscapes of Praça do Ferreira and Praça Doutor Moreira de Souza. Thus, books, academic papers and websites were analyzed in order to obtain such information. Structured interviews were also conducted with six homeless people, four in Praça do Ferreira, three men and one woman, and two men in Praça Doutor Moreira de Souza. The interaction with the interviewees helped to improve the basis of this research, because with their speeches some questions that were present were elucidated. As a result, we had the description of the changes that occur in the landscapes over the years in the two squares, information related to homeless people and the changes they cause in the two squares.