A rua é a cor da cidade: proposta de reabilitação urbana para uma fração dos espaços públicos de valor patrimonial e cultural - Cidade Alta, Natal/RN

Abstract

The Cidade Alta neighborhood, in Natal/RN, is part of the initial core of the city, being part of your territory framed as a Special Historical Protection Zone (ZEPH), In addition to containing part of the polygonal of Tipping defined by IPHAN. However, several transformations happened over time and the remaining of the existing historical heritage is resistant in the commercial center, aligning itself with the alleys and sleepers we find, indicating that there remains part of a colonial layout of the nucleus originating in the Cidade Alta. Furthermore, the neighborhood's public space is the stage of several cultural manifestations that shelter actors and cultural producers who live democratically in public spaces, places of passage, and more ephemeral sociability. Thus, the form of appropriation of space by social dynamics lies in the patrimonial public central spaces, a privileged field of investigation.Therefore, this research aims to propose a better understanding of the politically planned space and also perceive the space lived by your inhabitants and everyday users, as well as the role of valuing cultural heritage in the rehabilitation of the Cidade Alta's center, from the perspective of the city as a result of the relationship between the past, revived in memory, and the present. Thereby, the objective is to develop a proposal of Integrated Urban Rehabilitation of public spaces of patrimonial value of a fraction of the Neighborhood of Cidade Alta, to contribute to the integration and articulation between these spaces and as a form to value the appropriations and cultural heritage existing.