The growing urbanization and its peak in the 60/70 (sixties and seventies) left behind some concerns among which the correct form of landscape design and its aspects assumes a substantial part. The demand for construction quantity ignored several concerns about the urban environment quality. The overflowing occupation of urban landscape creates a great and undelayable need to transform the unoccupied spaces in service for the communities. The foundation of any project is made of the several sciences related to the physical world. Such knowledge was made aware from its significant interventions on the landscape. Today we go further besides the aesthetics that were, once before, a matter of major focus. In this thesis it is intended to demonstrate that based on a methodology, based in social and ecological sciences and knowledge, it is possible to design a landscape considering the community needs and respecting the social and ecological processes. In this context it was followed Carl Steinitz methodology in order to plan the Parque Urbano da Ribeira dos Mochos in a more ecological and social way.

Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia