LOCAL GREEN SPACES

The quality of landscapes and land management in Piatra Neamt town                

By, Diana Cojocariu, Ioana Diaconu and Raluca Iliescu

Directed by Teacher, Dumitru Letos

A. The aesthetics of the urban landscape of urban space

The aesthetics of urban landscape is a key element in the assessment of urban space for living and providing physical comfort. In assessing the aesthetics of the urban landscape are taken into account: the extent of urban green spaces, the distribution of green areas (including forests) in the municipality, architectural aesthetics, the stereo inner harmony of urban ambient space, etc.. The role of urban green spaces is not only one aesthetic but also a practical psychological impact by refreshing and energizing effect.            

               

Table 1 Quantitative aspects of green spaces in Piatra Neamt town

Source: First MUN, NT DRS, PUG 2011

                                                                                                               

The area occupied by green spaces (parks, recreation and sport) fluctuated more in comparison with the result of the importance attached to the recreational tool and conjunctural interests in the use of urban space (Table 1). It is however noted an increase in the area of green spaces until around 1997 and then begin a rapid decline with the development stage of the villas who  occupied neighborhoods to start all undeveloped areas of the built and then expanded the city limits and even on the territory of neighboring municipalities. Green spaces decrease continued until 2008, the year when he started a project initiated by the local government for their expansion (2008-2009) titled "The program to improve environmental quality through green spaces" implemented by accessing funds AFM, resulting such an increase in the surface occupied by green spaces. Decrease in the share of green spaces in the urban area of Piatra Neamt between 1997-2008, was due on the one hand these spaces contraction and expansion of built-up on the other side as in the period 2002-2010. Lawn area relating to each inhabitant has experienced the greatest fluctuation mainly due to shifting of the number of inhabitants in the municipality of surface modification of these areas simultaneously, the numerical values ​​of this index is inversely proportional to the large population (Table 1). The highest value of 17.66 in 2010 m2/loc overlaps tend convergence of the two factors, low population numbers and expanding the green effort but even this value is far from the European standard, which provides a surface 20 m2/loc m2/loc by 2010 and 26 by 2013.                                                  

Table 2 The surface of the structures located in the central industrial waste or residential neighborhoods in the city of Piatra Neamt in 2008                                                               

Industrial waste structures	Bistrita Factory (F)	I.M. Ceahlăul Section    (NF)	Ema Factory (F)	Pergodur Factory (NF)	Petrocart Factory (F)	Montana Factory (NF)	New Dawn Factory (NF)	Zimca Factory (NF)
The area occupied in urban (ha)	2,22	2,32	2,26	27,58	6,55	1,69	8,32	6,46

Source: OCPI NT (F - function, NF - Non-Functional)                                                                                                      

 Relatively small area occupied by green spaces in the city is practically compensated by the presence of wooded areas near the city, and statistically by including two wooded area in the city (Park "Cozla" and the Pietricica) as PUG , 2011. The inclusion in the urban area of 239.67 ha of woodland, creating a new area occupying 9.19% of the plot.                          If cityscape wins as expanding green spaces and especially those equipped with irrigation system, other urban landscape degradation occurs by maintaining residual industrial structure that dominates the central area or in some residential neighborhoods as true witnesses of time past , structures that occupied in 2008 3.2% of the city (Table 2). Even in running, the aesthetics of industrial structures affected, especially in their residual seriously degrade the quality of local urban paisaje.                                               

B. Recreational value of the natural landscape of the local area                                               

The natural landscape of the nearest city, according to its share in total administrative area, it can be a genuine recreational potential. The Higher the share that the natural landscape has in the administrative area , the bigger the recreational potential is , by the regenerating effect that it enhances mental, caused in turn the potential negative entropy accompanying a natural system.. Recreational capacity of the natural landscape of the local area can be evaluated in a simple manner by determining the percentage of these types of pictures in combination with how the public valuation of that specific potential. Categories of natural landscape with the greatest potential recreational sprung from a potential large negative entropy are forest landscape, landscape with water and rocky landscape.              

By reporting the forest area in administrative area (3528 ha in 2008) in built-up area (2144 ha in 2008) results high recreational potential in the local area due especially outside the built landscape.