Parques lineares como estratégias de gestão ambiental urbana: uma proposta para o Córrego Prosa em Campo Grande (MS)

Abstract

Protected areas are extremely important to conserve water resources and biodiversity, including urban ones, and emerge as possible alternatives for the balance between human society and the natural environment preservation. Nowadays, the expansion of urban conglomerates has been increasing and taking up more and more space in the environment, thus suppressing the local native biota. For this reason, the existence of parks is of great importance, as they are not only a biodiversity refuge, but also a bridge of interaction between the urban environment and nature. Linear parks in an urban areas represent a change from the dominant pattern in relation to urban water management and the establishment of the green areas system. They are considered "urbanistic interventions that aim to recover for the citizens the awareness of the natural site in which they live, progressively expanding the green areas" (Strategic Master Plan, 2002). In this aspect, the study aims to present a project for a linear park along the Prosa stream, in the perimeter of approximately 1.3 km between the Horto Florestal and the Shopping Norte Sul Plaza, located in Vila Carvalho and Jardim Jóquei, respectively, in the city of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul.