Na busca de sustentabilidade ambiental, muito tem se falado a respeito da ecologia da paisagem. Já há algumas décadas, diversas pesquisas têm definido estratégias de implementação de infraestruturas verdes com o objetivo de melhorar a integração entre áreas verdes e urbanizadas. Este artigo propõe um sistema de espaços livres urbanos estruturados por quatro elementos principais localizados na Microbacia do Ribeirão Cambé, na cidade de Londrina (PR). Por meio de uma conexão entre o parque Arthur Thomas, o lago Igapó I, o córrego Tucanos e o córrego Capivara, o sistema proposto busca desempenhar múltiplas funções relativas ao equilíbrio hidrológico/ecológico da bacia e das áreas florestadas. A integração formaria um conjunto de espaços públicos destinados ao lazer e ao convívio social, estabelecendo uma relação da natureza com a paisagem urbana local.

Applied engineering in real contexts is a methodology used in the Capstone course at the school of Civil Engineering at La Gran Colombia University. Students in their last semester have the opportunity of strengthen their cognitive, technical and engineering abilities and skills finding solutions to real problems for helpless population. According to the Institutional Educative Project (PEI), it is important that the faculty participate actively on students' development of critical thinking, communication skills, and positive attitudes while solving engineering problems into a social context. The main objective of this article is to share our teaching experiences while teaching the Capstone course that consist in finding solutions of real problems in real contexts. This course give the students the opportunity to work and solve real social problems and being in contact with the reality solve them. The work to be evidenced in this practice is the one developed by the students, accompanied directly by faculty in the diagnosis of an specific area, their buildings and urban infrastructure in the Municipality of Soacha, that has being growing as a consequence of the social displacement.

Abstract-Civil Engineering offices were offered in 2013 duringthe LACCEI conference as an integrated proposal to get to know Civil Engineering overall using case studies involving rural populations, wherein as soon as the problem is presented, analysis and proposal of issues in this context generates a solution model. In so doing there is demonstrable follow-up over these three years and an opportunity to review the impact of these offices in terms of training in these communities and in some cases present the Civil Engineering students of the University of Gran Colombia at international conferences challenging them to apply their knowledge and offering them an opportunity to work in the community with a high degree of satisfaction and commitment.