Entre a teoria e a prática dos planos diretores para o planejamento urbano

Abstract

Brazilian cities had an accelerated and disorderly growth in the last decades, there was in Brazil, based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, the clear need for the establishment of complex urban legislation, geared to specific urban planning for each reality of the different Brazilian cities. Since the City Statute was established in 2001, and in accordance with mandatory requirements established by law, the Master Plan emerged, in short, an urban plan of guidelines to guide the orderly and sustainable growth of cities. From this reality, this article presents as main objective to analyze the distance between the discourse and practice of the master plans in the urban planning of the Brazilian cities. Through a literary revision, different points of view on the subject, wich the final aim of understanding the main "failures" and "correctness" of this instrument, and thus, to understand the real effectiveness or not of its application. In general, we notice the exposure of many "failures", in comparison to the minimum "hits" exposed by the authors. One perceives a real distance between what is established in law and what is really put into practice.