Parque Comum-Unidade: uma proposta de reconciliação urbana para prevenção da violência em Sobral

Abstract

Violence is evident in the landscape of the contemporary brazilian city, although it is not homogeneously distributed nor occurs with the same intensity in all urban territories. This can be verified by comparing intra-urban homicide rates in different locations. This situation is motivated by the conditions of urban segregation and precariousness in which are found many neighborhood districts of the cities, mostly peripheral, as an expressive evidence of the situation of greater social vulnerability to the violence in which they can be framed. On a framework that worsens increasingly, urban planning can be considered an important agent in relation to the prevention of urban violence, considering its multidisciplinary and intersectoral action and its instrument of character aimed at correcting distortions of urban growth. This study, which focuses on urban violence, identifies the city of Sobral, located in the northern region of the state of Ceará, as a scenario for an experience of spatialization of concepts learned about violence and urban space. It was studied the case of two neighboring and antagonistic neighborhoods - ‘Novo Caiçara’ and ‘Terrenos Novos’ - with a prominent role in the violence rates of the city. Based on an analysis and diagnosis of the situation, the proposal of a project for urban reconciliation between these neighborhoods is summarized with the purpose of improving the living conditions of the residents, thus contributing to the prevention of violence in the region.