VENTUROSA CAMPINA: Urban proposals and transformations in Campina Grande-PB - 1970-1976
Campina Grande-PB; Urban transformations; Recreation Areas; Integrated Local Development Plan
This work discusses urban and architectural projects, especially proposals on leisure spaces, which were part of the Integrated Local Development Plan of Campina Grande – “PDLI”, developed during the 1970s in the context of the institutionalization of urban planning in Brazil through the Federal Housing and Urban Planning Service – “SERFHAU”. Adopting procedures of literature review and documentary analysis, the work is structured in three parts: in the first, it discusses the ideas that guided urban planning in Brazil in the context of its institutionalization since the 1960s. It aims to understand how modernization and development ideals associated with the State guided the municipality's action in the conception of the Plan's propositions. In the second, it shows a historical perspective of the urban planning experiences from the 20th century in the city of Campina Grande until the time of the PDLI in addition to discussing the conception of the Plan through the Campina Grande Development Company – “COMDECA”. In the third part, it highlights the implications of urban and architectural proposals contained in the Plan, focusing on the relation between leisure projects and the urban configuration of the territories where they were inserted