Planos diretores participativos em municípios cearenses: os casos de São Benedito, Beberibe e Fortaleza

Abstract

Boarding the advances and retrocessions of the experience of Ceara’s cities to draw up participative directors plans. Describes the history of the urbanization process in Brazil from the analysis of their cities. Presents the appearance, the evolution and achievements of the National Movement for Urban Reform. Discusses the possible effects of the new legal-urban order of Brazil. Differentiates management and urban planning. Dissert about the different concepts of urban planning in the history of the country. Investigates the legal, urbanistical and methodological aspects of the participative urban planning. Consider the treatment afforded by the director plans of São Benedito e Beberibe to the social function of property, the zoning and the system of democratic management of the city. Criticizes the process of revising the director plan of Fortaleza. Makes use of bibliographical, documental and field research, essential to understanding the subject.