Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: EDUARDO PATRICIO DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : EDUARDO PATRICIO DA SILVA
DATA : 12/05/2017
HORA: 14:30
LOCAL: A DEFINIR
TÍTULO:

THE "RIGHT TO THE CITY" AND THE DEMOCRATIC USE OF PUBLIC SPACES: THE PROBLEM OF INTRA-URBAN "ACCESSIBILITY" IN NATAL-RN

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Public Space, Right to the City, Public Policies, Universal Accessibility.

PÁGINAS: 71
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
ÁREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
RESUMO:

This research approaches the problem of accessibility in the city of Natal-RN, caused in large part to the adoption of modernist precepts in the urban planning of Brazilian cities from the early 1930s in the Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo until the mid-1980s in the last years of the Military Regime in Brazil, which resulted in cities with urban designs that privilege the use of private motor vehicles, to the detriment of the of the spatial scale of the "human dimension" and universal accessibility. These facts, added to the capitalist logic of space production and undemocratic processes of municipal management adopted in Brazilian cities, have generated cities that are not accessible to pedestrians and, especially, to individuals with physical restrictions of mobility. Thus, the city of Natal-RN reverberates such logics in its urban design, where accessibility problems can be observed in almost all its spaces and their respective integrations with structures and aspects of the public transportation system, something that many times hinders or even impedes the autonomous physical displacement of people with disabilities around the city. However, in Brazil there have been a series of institutional and legal advances that have resulted in the creation of one of the most advanced legislation in the world that deal with accessibility, constitutional righ of "coming and going" and the approval of the City Statute (Law 10.257 / 2001), which made the "right to the city" not only be recognized in the area of politics, but also like a fundamental right in the brazilian legislation, which in determining that the city's spaces should fulfill its social function in the Well-being to the citizens has implied in itself the promotion of accessibility. In this context, the present study aims to analyze for what reasons the institutional and legal advances that have occurred in Brazil in recent years were not able to promote accessibility in the city of Natal-RN. This is an empirical research of the descriptive type, developed through the hypothetical-deductive method, which has a qualitative approach and has adopted in its technical procedure since the accomplishment of a bibliographical survey on the theoretical framework of "accessibility" in authors such as Lippo (1990), and Sassaki (2010), and Garcia (2012), on the concepts of "human dimension" proposed by Gehl (2015) and "right to the city" presented by Lefebvre (2001), Harvey (2012; 2014) and its particular approach in the context of the Brazilian urban reform, until the accomplishment of a documentary research about the brazilian legislation that deals with the accessibility. The results of this research seek to describe the possible divergences or convergences between the emphases given by the urban planners of Natal-RN in recent years and the constitutional and legal determinations that address the issue of accessibility in Brazil.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 2432718 - ALEXSANDRO FERREIRA CARDOSO DA SILVA
Externo ao Programa - 346279 - ENILSON MEDEIROS DOS SANTOS
Interno - 1149528 - MARCIO MORAES VALENCA