Lazer e qualidade de vida urbana: análise a partir da distribuição de equipamentos públicos para vivência físico-esportiva

Abstract

The issue of urban quality of life has been an emerging issue that affects the present and future of cities, strengthened by the increasing systematization of indicators for better understanding, developed by public administrations and civil society movements worldwide. These indicators seek to measure various aspects of quality of life that influence the well being of the people in different regions of the cities, helping to direct actions for planning and urban policies. Leisure as a social right is part of that discussion as one of the key issues to developing the urban quality of life. The research in this field has been legitimized through the construction of indicators that primarily involve information concerning the availability and distribution of public leisure equipments, important for supporting public policies actions in the area and to contribute to further democratization of its practices. Despite the diverse interests that underlie the leisure experience, this paper understands the leisure and its relationship to quality of life in the city of Montes Claros/MG, from its connection to life experiences, physical sports and public equipments identified in this city (public courts, gyms, soccer fields, bars, gym, playgrounds, skating rinks and places for walking). Thus, the work aimed to apply intra-urban indicators to understand the distribution of public leisure facilities aimed at those experiences and give an spatialization of some programs developed in the Public Policy System of the City Hall’s Department for Youth, Sport and Leisure, with clipping time of the year 2010. This analysis was performed from a georeferenced based on the division of the city of Montes Claros in 26 planning regions. The survey of information based diagnostic found indicators that the court sports equipment are more and better distributed in the city, but the courts in the regions of low income have an infrastructure deficit. The soccer fields are concentrated in low-income or very low, where there are still major urban voids. Other devices are primarily responsible for differences in diversity between regions, being concentrated in regions of middle and upper income town. Correlated with the number of resident population in each region, the IQV-Leisure points an unequal relationship between the number of public equipments per 1000 inhabitants in some regions, particularly in low income regions, which have indicators below the average of the city. In the spatial distribution of selected programs, it was found that some equipments are used, although most still at underutilized. It is hoped the discussion of these indicators can contribute to the debate in search of a greater democratization of leisure and quality of life in cities, especially in the reality of Montes Claros.