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This work aims to analyze some elements responsible for the urban expansion of the city of São José/SC. Among them, the most important and genesis of urbanization, was the relationship with the political-administrative capital of the State of Santa Catarina. This fact triggered a process of metropolization from the 1980s onwards. Covering metropolization means understanding some determinants of the internal dynamics of the municipality, as well as the role of this municipality within the Metropolitan Region of Florianópolis - MRF. Based on the understanding that the municipality went through two distinct moments in its urban expansion, initially being a dormitory city and later building centralities and sub-centralities that consolidated São José as largely urbanized and vertical. Factors that refer to dynamic and broad spatial interactions and that interfere in the patterns of mobility and urban accessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the proposals of the current Revitalization Plan for the central area of the city of Campo Grande in Mato Grosso do Sul, to make critical inferences about it, verifying the extent to which it contemplates the human dimension in improving the quality of life for its citizens. It was also analyzed how the process of public participation in its implementation developed. To achieve this objective, the study has a qualitative approach, using documentary research as a methodological basis. Thus, the study sought to expose elements to contribute to the reflection of the indispensability of collaborative creation, active participation, and democratic urban management of public spaces, considering the human dimension in a local development process of an inclusive nature. The study allowed us to verify that, although the strategies for the requalification of the site of the Revitalization Plan for the central area cover different dimensions of the urban system and address important points treated in urbanism in the human dimension in their strategies, the greater emphasis is on the economic front than on its social front. It was also found that public participation in the decision-making processes of the Plan is still unsatisfactory since it is still governed by neoliberal principles and results more in a consultation process imposed vertically than an active dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The urban space of a city is the result of social interactions with and between people who use and experience this space, thus configuring the public sphere of a city. We can also consider that the construction of these spaces is directly related to the way in which their free building spaces relate to their built spaces. In a city of heritage character, these characteristics are added to the historical and cultural values that must be protected and valued through safeguard and protection actions. However, current Brazilian legislation acts more on the building, and even including urban complexes and their surroundings, it does not seem to consider that the safeguarding and protection of a city's heritage also involves urban planning, that is, the safeguarding and protection actions must be related to urban planning actions, present both in the master plans and in the intervention and maintenance actions of the existing public space. The general objective of this research was to establish and identify the existing relationships between urban design and urban environmental heritage that considered both the safeguard and protection aspects and the aspects of urban quality. The case study methodology was used, choosing the city of Laguna, on the southern coast of Santa Catarina. The procedures used were: the historical-structural analysis through the study of the urban evolution of the city, the registration process and the current characteristics of its public spaces. We can consider that the research thus contributed to the reflection on the practices of urban environmental heritage protection related to urban development actions and qualification of public spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an era of intense urbanisation, green spaces have become elements of ever greater importance for the quality of the urban environment. How do citizens perceive these spaces? Which behavioural patterns do they exhibit? Which key advantages and limitations do they most often associate with these spaces? This article presents the results of a study undertaken in the city of Bragança, which aimed at assessing how the city's resident population perceives and uses its public green spaces. Among other conclusions, it was found: i) that the various social groups exhibit different use patterns; ii) that these use patterns are strongly characterised by seasonality; iii) that age is a significant determinant of the degree of preference for, alternatively, built facilities and natural elements; and iv) that the city's inhabitants consider the local green spaces to be of generally good quality, and generally acknowledge most of their social and environmental benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]