A Legislacão e a Nova Agenda Urbana: Aporte para a Gestão das Cidades e de Atividades Econômicas

Abstract

Several factors influence the dynamicity of a city, such as the demographic characteristics, the diversity of economic activities and the specialization of the productive sectors in the urban environment, the single-family horizontal and mixed vertical urban formation, and the conditions of the municipal legislation that regulates and induces the use of urban soil. The legislation related to planning is particularly interesting, since on one hand it has less capability of influencing in central urban areas, with more consolidated uses, on the other hand, it presents expressive potentiality to induce the development in organic urban areas, constantly changing, called polycentric and non-central. This research aims at analyzing the urban functionality linked to the economic production by trade, industry, and service, from studies of the legal determinations embodied in the Directive Plans of three medium-sized cites situated in the South of Brazil: Passo Fundo (RS), Chapecó (SC), and Cascavel (PR). It fits in as a qualitative research based on sources of legislations of municipal Directive Plans regarding the production of the use of the soil by economic activities and in conformity with the City Statute (2001). As a result, it was observed that the legislations are flexible, fomenters of the urban development, for they enable the use of multifunctional, hybrid, or blended soil, therefore, they are nor regulatory, although they poorly link the instruments of the City Statute (2001) for the production of the use of the soil for economic activities, a particularity that could help in the urban organization and in orientations of future economic investments in these cities.

Keywords

• directive plan
• urban management
• specialization of urban economic sectors