Entre os planos e a realidade: até que ponto os planos diretores de Fortaleza determinaram as alterações na malha viária da cidade?

Abstract

This paper aims to verify the feasibility of the Fortaleza’s masterplans propositions (1960-2010), regarding only the city's road system. In this sense, it is intended to contribute to discussions about urban planning efforts, with an emphasis on the investigation of the plan versus reality relationship, i.e., between the discourses contained in the plans and practices adopted by the administrations. To do so, it was necessary to raise the proposals contained in all the four plans elaborated so far, as well as to investigate their execution conditions (non-executed, partially or totally executed) from the morphological comparison between different cartographic bases and the measurement of road width using aero photogrammetry (Google Earth Pro). As a result of a mapping exercise, it became evident the existing gap between what was proposed and what, in fact, was performed.