THE SHADOW OF THE LANDSCAPE: GREEN SPACE IN PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA

Abstract

The human senses are guides for the perception of place, space, landscape. Representations are characterized by the symbolic representation of the human being and, in geography, it is one of the ways of reading the world, physical and human. Contemporaneity leads to the understanding of today, of what it represents to the human being today. This research aims to awaken to the reality about meanings and representations of the urban landscape today, in view of the feelings of the people of Porto Velho towards the landscape of parks and squares of the city. To achieve the objective of this investigation, interviews were used with questions that guide and lead to the achievement of the goal. We present a review of the concepts of some geographers, relating to the issue of landscape perception. We record the opinions and revelations of its meaning for the population, in addition to the so widely debated in modernity, nature preservation. Seeking to visualize the subjective elements that involve man and his relationship with the landscape. The content is broad when it comes to the meanings and representations of this theme. Therefore, the study brings a cut of the meaning of the landscape for the people of Porto Velho, explicit in the frequentation of the city's circuit park. In the search to perceive the subjective character present in the landscapes of the parks of Porto Velho, we verified the meanings and representation of the circuit park of Porto Velho, Rondônia.