Train station area gardens: the creation and evolution of Dr. José Esteves Square, in Lavras-MG

Luz, Iracema Clara Alves; Paiva, Patrícia Duarte de Oliveira; Alves, Schirley Fátima Nogueira da Silva Cavalcante

doi:10.14295/oh.v23i4.1117

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“…In this literature review: 41/50 studies are supply-oriented, 4/50 are demand-oriented, and 5/50 look at both supply and demand. The four studies focusing only on demand [34,[36][37][38], and the five considering both [16,19,[39][40][41] are particularly interested in the economic survival of historic gardens and understand that resources come from satisfied visitors in both public and private contexts. Rostami et al [36], Saeed et al [38] and Silva and Carvalho [34] use survey questionnaires in order to understand the profile, behavior and satisfaction of visitors.…”

Section: Supply Vs Demand Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Boisset [19] also notes the public amenity value of historic gardens. Finally, both Gratani [40] and Luz, Paiva, and Alves [39] make a point of including visitor information and attributed value in their case studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Demand analysis should be an important part of public historic garden management because they are paid for through taxation with the intention of increasing public welfare. Rostami et al [36] analyze demand by surveying visitors in four Persian gardens and, to a limited extent by Luz, Paiva and Alves [39], by interviewing visitors as part of a site evaluation in Brazil. Public garden studies show the most interest in strategic management (57.1%), followed by assessment (42.9%).…”

Section: Public Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The geographic diversity of these studies is also noteworthy, with four coming from outside Europe [36,39,68,70]. The availability of public parks is an important indicator of wellbeing.…”

Section: Public Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gullino, Larcher and Devecchi [52] illustrate their role in conserving monumental trees; Flinck [73] shows how private historic gardens create neighborhood identity and amenity value; Gao and Dietze-Schirdewahn [10] investigate how private gardens conserve intangible cultural heritage. Outside this category, both Askwith [16] and Silva and Carvalho [39] note a connection between owning a garden and garden visitation in the UK. They also note that owners of private historic gardens are more likely to participate in garden clubs and associations and in garden tourism.…”

Section: Private Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Systematic Literature Review of Historic Garden Management and Its Economic Aspects

2020

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Historic gardens are important parts of humanity’s built heritage within the designed landscape, providing many environmental, economic and socio-cultural benefits. Management is a key part of their conservation, perhaps the most difficult because it is costly, must be continual, and requires a skilled workforce. This systematic review looks at the literature addressing historic garden management, with special attention regarding the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability. Academic studies on this subject come from many different disciplines, making it both stimulating and fragmented. It is now time to consolidate these interdisciplinary efforts into a clear vision, including a framework of key themes and research methods so as to better coordinate efforts and make the information and innovation generated more accessible to the garden managers “in the trenches”. With this aim, reviewed studies are classified according to 10 criteria: supply or demand orientation; management phase involved; primary sustainability processes addressed; geographic criteria; number of sites covered; policy documents referred to; kind of data collected; study methods employed; possibility of bias specifically regarding historic gardens; garden use. An analysis of these criteria shows that historic garden management literature focuses on describing the gardens themselves, with few studies interested in the people supporting them. Future research should follow recent policy documents’ lead and pay more attention to community value and involvement.

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Section: Supply Vs Demand Analysismentioning

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Section: Supply Vs Demand Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Public Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The geographic diversity of these studies is also noteworthy, with four coming from outside Europe [36,39,68,70]. The availability of public parks is an important indicator of wellbeing.…”

Section: Public Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Private Gardensmentioning

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Origin and situation of some squares of railway stations

Luz

Paiva

2020

Ornam. Hortic.

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The squares originated in Brazil in the colonial period are frequently associated with administrative or religious. However, with the implementation of railways, this model underwent transformations and gardens began to be constructed in front of Railway Stations, as public squares. Nevertheless, the records of origins, histories, and factors involved in creating such spaces, as well as their evolution, are not enough known. Therefore, the objective was to understand their evolution by identifying the characteristics, highlighting the urban and landscape aspects that these gardens presented from their emergence until the present, using as a model four cases from cities in the state of Minas Gerais. The research was centered between the 19th century until nowadays, and the method applied was an interface between inventive and subjective analyses, associated with a bibliographical and iconographic survey, in addition to interviews. In all the analyzed situations, the gardens complemented, besides the station itself, buildings of eclectic architecture, where commercial, industrial activities and structures of support to the railroad operated. It was found that the gardens were built in these spaces mainly to provide a good aesthetic impression of the city for visitors that arrive through the railway. Although these gardens were references to the city where they were implanted, most of these spaces transformed over time, considering their uses and aspects, breaking the strong relationship between space and building.

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The Trajectory of the Landscape and Functionality of Urban Watercourses: A Study of Lavras City, Brazil

Sousa¹,

Paiva²,

Reis³

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Front. Sustain. Cities

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The growth of the urban population promotes a strong pressure to occupy open spaces in urban center, including around watercourses. Canalization and drainage techniques favored urban expansion and occupation of these spaces. In long term, this has not been efficient, since it is not a sustainable decision, mainly in view of the challenges provided by climate change. The purpose of this work was to analyze the modification of the landscape and multifunctionality of the urban watercourses in relation to socioeconomic and environmental scope of the evolution of an urban area using Lavras city, Brazil, as model. For that, city's hydrographic grid was drawn from the digital elevation model (DEM) corrected by manual vectorization after field visits and analysis of high-resolution images. To understand natural and sociocultural evolution processes, a compilation of geo-historical information about the origin and formation of the city was made using Patchwork Quilt methodology. To understand the actions and perceptions of different actors from urban watercourses in Lavras, questionnaires were applied to the population, and interviews were directed to the public and private managers. It was observed that the watercourses and their surroundings lost a large part of their natural, social, and economic functions, after the 1980s, only having a drainage function. The areas in expansion prioritize the natural function preservation but lack the incentive to implement the other functions such as social and economic. With the economic valuation of land, the implementation of green and blue infrastructure has not yet been prioritized. Even with the legislation that provides multifunctional uses for rivers and their banks, the urban watercourses from Lavras remained largely monofunctional. This did not contribute to increasing the city's green areas and the reintegration of watercourses into the urban landscape. The population values the water present in the urban landscape and yearns for multifunctional solutions such as green areas and urban gardens. Public and private actors recognize the lack of clarity in the legislation, and in the definition of concepts and techniques to be adopted. Multifunctional solutions can be in favor of reconciling different interests, promoting the reintegration of rivers into the urban landscape.

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Train station area gardens: the creation and evolution of Dr. José Esteves Square, in Lavras-MG

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A Systematic Literature Review of Historic Garden Management and Its Economic Aspects

A Systematic Literature Review of Historic Garden Management and Its Economic Aspects

Origin and situation of some squares of railway stations

The Trajectory of the Landscape and Functionality of Urban Watercourses: A Study of Lavras City, Brazil

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