Banca de DEFESA: ANDRESSA TORRES CORREIA DE MELLO

URBANITY FOR WHOM AND WHERE DOES IT GO? The human dimension in the master plan of the city of Natal/RN

Selective city; City for people; Master plans; Right to the city; Jan Gehl;

The present work, whose motivation was the reading of the book the city for people by jan Ghel, aims to analyze how and to what degree the Master Plan for the city of Natal incorporates the human dimension in the construction of a “city for people” at the same time. while contributing to spatial selectivity. According to Jan Ghel's thought, “The city for the people” is configured as a principle that would allow the rescue of the human scale and the renewal of the forms of uses of urban spaces. In our understanding, urban legislation, in the figure of the master plan, in turn, becomes a key to reading the present time by raising expectations about the transforming possibility of space by tying articles that prioritize the transformation of the real city, at the same time that in others, push the “problematic” city as permanence, subtracting the right to the city from the people who consume it, mainly the poorest. Although motivating, the projects that enable the presence of increasingly humanitarian spaces in emerging countries such as Brazil, permeate at a sensitive level because they bring the real intention of humanizing public spaces when faced with the contradictions of capital and conflicts. of interests interposed in this process. In the methodological scope, the dialectical method is used in this research, contemplating the three-dimensionality of spaces: conceived, lived and perceived, allowing the understanding of the analysis of spatial processes at these different levels. Therefore, the methodological procedures adopted in this research will encompass primary and secondary data, respectively results of the analysis of urban space in pre-defined areas in the city through guide-questionnaires for tabulating these data and consulting the relevant bibliography added to a documentary survey on the Plan Director of the City of Natal.