Urban hospitality and the public space design : the path of Almirante Tamandaré Square in Balneário Camboriú/SC

Abstract

This research aims to rescue the history of Almirante Tamandaré public square in Balneário Camboriú/SC, evidencing its importance to the city and to the tourism, considering its privileged position and that it is a multifunctional space and, above all, its unique history, described by several actors of public management and citizens that live in Balneário Camboriú city. In the context of the Tamandaré Square’s history, the research intends to make explicit the relation between the urban hospitality and the public space design, as well as the consequent implications on the tourism of the city. Concerning to the methodology, the research will be qualitative, exploratory, of phenomenological character allied to oral history as the method used to collect interviews, besides documentary research in historical files and bibliographies of contemporary authors. Among the results proved that tourism dispenses public spaces of the squares of the central area of Balneario Camboriu, the way in which they currently have.