Eco-Territórios e Projeto Urbano. O caso do litoral oeste da Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza

Abstract

This paper discusses the urban project’s challenges and potentials in metropolitan peripheries and how to make them in a sustainable way, given that the eco-territorial planning creates comunities economically viable, socially fair and enviromentally responsable. Interventions in these areas present obstacles related to dificulties that pervade different institutional instances and morfological, social, economical and political issues, since they transcend municipal boundaries. For this reflection, it is brought as case study the West coast of Fortaleza’s metropolitan area. It is an periphery area that have suffered great transformations in the last two decades and wich social and environmental impacts are already felt. The methodology is based on empirical observation and in documental analisys of the urban and environmental politics, using cross-scale cartography procedures for characterize the several laws applied in this area. At the end, some projectual intervetion guidelines are suggested, driven by the sustainability and urban ecology principles.