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We have characterized the popular perception and preference for some strategies of composing a tree-lined street as a basic tool for its management. We sort the main commercial street in the city of Irati, Paraná, and prepared composition projects to suggest local tree planting. We presented to people a structured questionnaire with affirmative questions about tree-lined streets and different ways of landscaping composition, with answers presented according to the Likert scale model. It was used the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test to compare the male and female group of answers, Kruskal-Wallis test to compare questions with more than three options, and Multiple Canonical Correspondence to create a perceptual map of the answers about composition preference. For most of the questions about popular perception, we observed a significant difference among votes and that local people are conscious about the beneficial effects provided by trees, whether environmental, economic, or aesthetic. For questions related to popular preference, we observed the predominance of choices for a central reservation with trees, the use of medium-sized species, the use of species with pink/purple flowers, and arboreal species with a narrow and low dense crown. This technique of popular consultancy may turn the planning process more suitable and successful by being integrative.

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