SILVA, G. R. B; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9370413421612520; SILVA, Gorete Ribeiro Barbosa da.
Resumo:
The mobility and accessibility at the public spaces are rights ensured by law, for that any person
with deficiency can enjoy these spaces equally rest of population who does not present
deficiency. Therefore, this research seeks to verify if the public spaces in Campina Grande-PB
downtown are accessible to people with visual impairment, as establishes the Master Plan and
Urban Mobility Plan of the city. For that, starting from the following questioning: Are the public
spaces of Campina Grande city ready for receive people with visual impairment, according to
referred plans? If not, are which main challenges found by them in these locations? How can
they accomplish their necessary activities in these places? Which are the spatial tactics used
by them to achieve their desired goals in public places in downtown? From the raised dilemma,
the research has as general objective to verify the adaptation conditions of public spaces of
Campina Grande-PB downtown, in it concerns to mobility and to accessibility that person with
visual impairment. And, as specific objectives: to verify which of these places that present
more accessibility; identify which are the places that present more difficulty to the people with
visual impairment move around; understand how happens the mobility of these people in the
public repartitions and, lastly, present the places who stand out in accessibility and mobility for
the subjects. The adopted methodology was the bibliographical approach in books, official
documents that rules the mobility and accessibility for people with visual impairment,
especially the Master Plan and the Urban Mobility of Campina Grande and, as well, existent
documents in electronic addresses that dealing with issues relative to socio spatial inclusion of
this population. With the bibliographical material studied and analyzed, we managed a data
gathering at the Institute of the Blind of Campina Grande, which concentrate a large number of
these subjects, who provided information about the mobility and accessibility conditions on
studied spaces. This research constituted as a case study made in a specific place, without
preoccupation of confronts the research results, but to find satisfactory answers to the
investigated questions. By the other way, this case study it constituted in a research of
qualitative character. To obtain the empirical data, we resort to application of questionnaires
that contains open and closed questions. By the end, the research results enlightening that the
public spaces on Campina Grande-PB downtown shows infrastructure adaptation problems ,
which difficult the mobility and accessibility of people with visual impairment and inhibits the
action of these subjects in public arenas where the political questions are posed and debated. In
this sense, they are spaces that exclude them, despite the law ensures the adaptation that
guarantee their mobility and accessibility spatial on these arenas.