Remaking the community's memory: the Fazendinha Park at Jardim Colombo

Abstract

The work proposes a discussion of a new urban landscape planning strategy for the free spaces at the bottom of the valley in the community of Jardim Colombo, in the West Zone of São Paulo, aiming to the acquisition of green areas, recovery of the water stream, institutional equipment and social housing, through the restoration of existing degraded areas (abandoned empty spaces and removals) and management tools that can enable the preservation and proximity of an original landscape in accordance with current needs, establishing a project in a participatory way and respecting its roots. The area called Fazendinha, one of the few open free spaces in the community, has become the object of a collective urban redevelopment project, whose methodology developed for the first on-site interventions and its participatory process are presented, with emphasis on strategies to stimulate the community sense of belonging to the project. The first positive signs of this collective action are described, as the means by which the Jardim Colombo has been rebuilding its community legacy and rescuing the identity and origin of the place.