PUBLIC GREEN AREAS IN JUIZ DE FORA, MG: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2014.9668

One of the most striking features of the geographical space is your uninterrupted processing, fruit of the dialectic relationship between society and nature, in which both influence each other into each other. Under the aegis of capitalism, spatial transformations are quick and often so deep that produce environmental impacts and socioespaciais that are difficult to be mitigated. The urbanization process demonstrates clearly the magnitude of the transformations in which man and nature pass. In Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, the rapid growth of the city and its urban area population bequeathed a modal and irregular number of public green areas, essential in improving the urban and environmental quality of life of the population. The analysis of demographic dynamics and content of green areas of parks, squares, flowerbeds and UFJF, of each of the 81 municipal urban regions and their areas of influence, reinforced by the calculation and analysis of the Density of green areas and the percentage of green areas, present themselves as important steps in understanding the current status of these areas, which will subsidize public policy proposals aimed at protecting, expand and build new green areas, as well as facilitate that existing legislation be put effectively into practice.