Atividade física e ambiente urbano: lazer e desporto no entorno do Igarapé do Mindu - Manaus/AM

Abstract

Several politics and the disordered growing of Manaus city determined the changing in its form and operation. The urbanization politics these last a hundred years marked the spaces made by the elite class interest in a time and structural form. Going this way, the ones with no economical conditions had no spaces for house, physic and leisure activities and were dislocated to distant areas. A lot of these spaces were the “igarapes”, an action that remains until nowadays as an appropriation form of the “igarape” soil of our city. The park 10 spa represented the leisure space for a long time, on which the relation with the environment had no impact. The accelerated crowing and abundance period decreased during the First World War, between 1914 and 1918. The city that was recreated to shelter foreign and Brazilian people from the South-east part of the country inspired in the Paris streets had only 35 thousand people that time and was supposed to assume the ones from the rubber productions farms, increasing, this way, its population and the appearance of new districts. The Manaus Free Zone had a fundamental role in the space city order, as a economic politic modal and social practice, and let to great changes in the Manaus urban landscape. The studious area of this work was the “Mindu Igarapé “, divided in three points: the lower course, the medium course and the upper course. The proposal was to analyze spaces used to physical and leisure activity practice in its bank. We can note that in the lower course the area is still used with this objective, and the water pollution is accelerated, not only by the swage system but also by the residential trash. In the medium course the sport and leisure politics were applied, but the environmental worry was forgotten, where the commercial and residential swage are being through in the Bilhares Park and the Mindu Park, decreasing the life quality of people who live in this area and destroying the forest in its bank. The upper course is an area on which there is not many of these intervention and needs to be more structured, due it belongs to high a populated area. We could find children itinerants parks, soil camp and land squash. Due the fact its near the Mindu’s source, it needs more vigilance. Talking about corporal mass index (IMC) of the three course population, the medium course was the one that had the biggest variation, culminating the tax of 23,69, which classified as pre-obese by the Health World Organization. Based on the IMC results and the environment indicator it was determinate that life qualities of Mindu Igarapé people is low taking on consideration body, environment and daily relationship.