A praça e suas territorialidades: uma análise da Praça Severino Cabral na Cidade de Lagoa Seca - PB.

Abstract

Historical and so important for the internal dynamics of cities, squares have become, over time, an environment characterized as true public assemblies, the place of encounter and disagreement, of collective and commercial relations, leisure or popular demands. With this ample apparatus of functionalities, the present study has as purpose, to analyze the territorialities present in the Severino Cabral Square, centering the analysis in the daily life of the different social actors who carry out their activities there, thus delimiting their territories. The square in study is located in the central area of the city of Lagoa Seca - PB and for conducting the research, we based on the qualitative method by observing the social relations configured in said space, as well as through interviews with the Understand: the particular impressions, the coexistence between the groups, as well as the dynamics present in their daily use. The results showed that the square presents a multiplicity of territories arranged in a fleeting, mobile and changing form that interact not only with the elements present in the territorial space of the square, but also with its surroundings, thus creating a mutual relationship.