THE MASTER PLAN IN THE URBAN PLANNING IMAGINARY: the spatial construction of Barra do Piraí and the culmination of the Plans from 1991 to 2016
master plan, urban planning, popular participation, Barra do Piraí.
The master plans are instruments that propose a spatial analysis at the municipal scale and that generate the expectation of change in the lives of the citizens, as well as their appropriation of their place. Starting from the prerogative that every Brazilian municipality with more than 20 thousand inhabitants has to elaborate, discuss and apply a plan every ten years, the instrument comes into vogue seasonally in public debates.
Based on the Federal Constitution of 1988 and Federal Law No. 10,257, of July 10, 2001 - also known as the City Statute - these instruments are the result of popular participation, technical evaluations and political validation.
The spatial part of the work is the municipality of Barra do Piraí, located in the Middle Paraíba Fluminense and the time frame is from 1991 to 2016, the period of application of the first plan of this municipality to the approval of the last one - in force. For that, it was necessary to visit the debates on the subject in books and documents that refer to the past.
The present work seeks to bring a reading about popular participation, how it occurs and what is its contribution to the final product - the bill. In order to arrive at this problem situation, it is intended to make an analysis of the history of the master plans in Brazil and the construction of the idea of a participatory product. When applying the concepts at the municipal level, the objective is to understand the scenario of popular political debate from the reading of the socio-spatial fabric of Barra do Piraí and, therefore, to understand how the historical profile of the citizen was traced.
In this direction, the effort proposed here is to understand in which measures the master plans are in the imaginary of urban planning, if there is an expectation in the instrument and whether or not it will be linked to popular participation, and if so, why this contribution may vary in the participatory or consultative sphere.