Porto Alegre has proposed itself, in the wake of the 1st World Social Forum, as a point of reference in the field of innovative planning and urban management experiences, highlighting a significant detachment, in experimental terms, from experiences in other Brazilian cities. Near the end of the 1970s, spurred on by the vast growth of the city, it was necessary to elaborate a master plan that would establish and contain new instruments for facing up to urban realties in transformation. The city, in the meantime, boasted a population of over one million residents, and the phenomenon of conurbation, also being verified in other cities, brought with it a demand for employment and services for the entire metropolitan region, composed of 16 municipalities and almost three million inhabitants. This was the period of development of the first Comprehensive Plan for Urban Development (PDDU - Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Urbano), characterized by an interdisciplinary structure that dealt, for the first time, with planning the entire municipal territory, including environmental issues and calling for the incorporation of social participation practices. The disproportionate growth of irregularities, the consolidation of democracy across the country, the question of social inclusion, beginning with the Movement for Urban Reform, which managed to introduce new instruments for urban management in the 1988 constitution, as well as the need to simplify urban plans, led to a revision of the Piano Director. The process of revising the Comprehensive Plan translated the objectives enunciated by the Congress into a general structure for the city, founded on seven fundamental strategies for urban development. The result of the revision of the Plan presents interesting strategies and objectives, as well as contradictions and problems, above all in the process of its implementation. A considerable portion of the urban planning instrument presents itself as an interesting social discussion, though with few operative and practical effects for its intended beneficiaries. The element that most stands out during this process, developed between 1990 and 2003, is the Municipality’s desire to reinforce the Plan more as process than product. If on the one hand the process of vast discussions and the significant participation of the population serves as an example for other cities, the quality of the product, judged in the built city during the period of applicability of the Plan, is undoubtedly not on par with the theoretical and methodological expectations that underlie the plan itself. There is both a clear lack of a unitary plan for the historical centre and the interesting and innovative intuition of Areas of Special Cultural Interest, together with the option to fragment operative urban planning instruments, which reveals a strong design component oriented towards the completion and transformation of these areas, rather than their safeguarding and conservation. We are thus dealing with the overlapping of instruments and local projects begun outside the Plan, with scarce relations to the new instruments for Areas of Special Cultural Interest. It thus becomes essential to understand to what degree the question of history and memory is present, from the moment of the revision of the Plan, in urban planning debate at the central and local level, and how this has become a structural component of the Plan itself, at the strategic and operative level.

Progetto e cultura nella città dei movimenti. 0055 51 Porto Alegre Brasile

TRUSIANI, ELIO
2010-01-01

Abstract

Porto Alegre has proposed itself, in the wake of the 1st World Social Forum, as a point of reference in the field of innovative planning and urban management experiences, highlighting a significant detachment, in experimental terms, from experiences in other Brazilian cities. Near the end of the 1970s, spurred on by the vast growth of the city, it was necessary to elaborate a master plan that would establish and contain new instruments for facing up to urban realties in transformation. The city, in the meantime, boasted a population of over one million residents, and the phenomenon of conurbation, also being verified in other cities, brought with it a demand for employment and services for the entire metropolitan region, composed of 16 municipalities and almost three million inhabitants. This was the period of development of the first Comprehensive Plan for Urban Development (PDDU - Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Urbano), characterized by an interdisciplinary structure that dealt, for the first time, with planning the entire municipal territory, including environmental issues and calling for the incorporation of social participation practices. The disproportionate growth of irregularities, the consolidation of democracy across the country, the question of social inclusion, beginning with the Movement for Urban Reform, which managed to introduce new instruments for urban management in the 1988 constitution, as well as the need to simplify urban plans, led to a revision of the Piano Director. The process of revising the Comprehensive Plan translated the objectives enunciated by the Congress into a general structure for the city, founded on seven fundamental strategies for urban development. The result of the revision of the Plan presents interesting strategies and objectives, as well as contradictions and problems, above all in the process of its implementation. A considerable portion of the urban planning instrument presents itself as an interesting social discussion, though with few operative and practical effects for its intended beneficiaries. The element that most stands out during this process, developed between 1990 and 2003, is the Municipality’s desire to reinforce the Plan more as process than product. If on the one hand the process of vast discussions and the significant participation of the population serves as an example for other cities, the quality of the product, judged in the built city during the period of applicability of the Plan, is undoubtedly not on par with the theoretical and methodological expectations that underlie the plan itself. There is both a clear lack of a unitary plan for the historical centre and the interesting and innovative intuition of Areas of Special Cultural Interest, together with the option to fragment operative urban planning instruments, which reveals a strong design component oriented towards the completion and transformation of these areas, rather than their safeguarding and conservation. We are thus dealing with the overlapping of instruments and local projects begun outside the Plan, with scarce relations to the new instruments for Areas of Special Cultural Interest. It thus becomes essential to understand to what degree the question of history and memory is present, from the moment of the revision of the Plan, in urban planning debate at the central and local level, and how this has become a structural component of the Plan itself, at the strategic and operative level.
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