O planejamento urbano integrado e a atuação da Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Administração da Área Metropolitana de Belém na Região Metropolitana de Belém

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the process of institutionalization of urban planning in Brazil, in the Metropolitan Region of Belém and, mainly, in the city of Belém. The object of the research is the performance of the Development and Administration Company of the Metropolitan Area of Belém in this process, from 1970 to 1990. The objective of the research is to investigate to what extent the company, an institution created to provide technical assistance and execution of metropolitan urban planning, assumed responsibilities in planning in the regional scenario and what roles it played in the local scenario. Despite the mixed capital company having collaborated with the implementation of the interdisciplinary methodology in the elaboration of plans, its performance was diversified during the years of the 1970s and 1980s. For this, it was necessary to contextualize the institutionalization of urban planning in Brazil and in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, with the identification of the origin and the historical context of insertion of the plans in an integrative way, to carry out the analysis of the importance of CODEM in the development of plans. integrative and in the function of executive arm of the council belonging to the State Planning System. From the presentation of changes with a reformist profile due to political and institutional changes to the assumption of technical assistance to the municipality of Belém. Thus, from the deductive-inductive method, with a qualitative approach and technique of bibliographic research at first to base the analysis of the role of CODEM in the institutionalization of integrated urban planning. Therefore, the question that guided the research was: "What was the role that CODEM played in integrated urban planning in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, in the period from 1970 to 1990?". To answer this question, a documental survey was carried out in a second moment, rescuing the activities and experiences of CODEM's plans and actions in the Metropolitan Region of Belém and in the state capital, through the analysis of the company's annual reports and the messages sent to the Chamber by the City Hall. The examination of this material helped to understand that the exhaustion of urban planning institutions at the federal level and the disruption at the state level were not the only problems faced by CODEM, as it had a result of turning more towards the application of urban policies in the scenario de Belém due to the context of decentralization and administrative flexibility, with the withdrawal of decision-making power from the previous structures.