Domingo na “Donja”: a manifestação espacial do lazer na Avenida Dom Joaquim, Pelotas( RS)

Abstract

This study presents and analyzes certain attributes that trigger the appropriation of public space av. Dom Joaquim, Pelotas/Brazil, on Sunday afternoons. And so, the reasons that make that site a leisure space and time for different social groups constitute the main objective of the investigation. The practical question raised from the issue is the use of urban public space as a collective episode of city appropriation mediated contingencies objective-subjective; this way, these spaces are potential geographic proximity agents among different social groups. In this context, the materiality of av. Dom Joaquim exercises over the public space an aesthetic that acts as ample factor of social attraction; in contrast, however, use of specific interests seem to prevent effective social interaction between different groups of actors who appropriate the public space of av. Dom Joaquim on Sunday afternoons. The methodology used to achieve the objectives of the study was to scope a qualitative approach with which collected data through systematic observations of the study area during Sunday afternoons, as well as semi-structured interviews with qualified respondents as regulars. It can be said that the empirical exercise based the theoretical basis not only in the measure of ventilation possibilities, as essentially to propose the guiding perspectives of the debate; and in general, the results allow us to infer that the quality of the physical attributes of av. Dom Joaquim attracts various social groups, but the spatial proximity generates a mismatch between the actors from their uses and modes of action manifested on public space for leisure time.