Invoking New Metropolitan Imaginaries: What Type of Metropolitan Region for What Kind of Metropolitan Planning and Governance?

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Valeria Fedeli ◽  
Patricia Feiertag ◽  
John Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Metropolitan Planning

scholarly journals Salvador e sua região metropolitana: mudanças recentes, conflitos e perspectivas institucionais

GeoTextos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvio Bandeira de Mello e Silva ◽  
Barbara-Christine Nentwig Silva ◽  
Maina Pirajá Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
State Government ◽  
Its Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
Territorial Unity ◽  
Research Studies

O trabalho tem como objetivo analisar como evoluiu recentemente uma tradicional metrópole brasileira, Salvador, e sua região metropolitana, tomadas como exemplo em função de sua particular relevância histórica e geográfica no contexto nacional. A pesquisa estuda os desafios enfrentados por Salvador e sua região, como decorrência dos desequilíbrios e dos graves problemas urbanos e metropolitanos, que são resultados, principalmente, dos frágeis instrumentos de planejamento urbano que deveriam estar integrados em um planejamento metropolitano, que hoje é inexistente. Os atuais conflitos políticos e judiciais entre o Governo do Estado e a Prefeitura de Salvador, agora colocados diante do Estatuto da Metrópole, são igualmente analisados. Por conseguinte, o trabalho aponta as perspectivas para enfrentar esses desafios, o que deve ser feito de forma integrada, com todos os municípios formando uma só unidade territorial de governança sociopolítica, econômica e administrativa, com capacidade de enfrentar seus problemas e planejar seu futuro. Abstract SALVADOR AND ITS METROPOLITAN REGION: RECENT CHANGES, CONFLICTS AND INSTITUCIONALS PERSPECTIVES This paper has as objective the analysis of the recent evolution of a traditional Brazilian metropolis, Salvador and its metropolitan region, taken as an example considering its particular historical and geographical relevance. The research studies the challenges faced by Salvador and its region mainly as a result of the week instruments of urban planning that should be integrated in a metropolitan planning not existing until now. The current political and judicial conflicts between the State Government of Bahia and the Municipality of Salvador are also analyzed, together with the recent law of Estatuto da Metrópole (Law of Metropolis). As a result, the study shows the perspectives to face the challenges, which must be done in an integrated manner with all municipalities forming a single territorial unity of sociopolitical, economical and administrative governance capable of facing their problems and plan their future.

scholarly journals Metropolitan Planning Practice and the Enlightment for Chongqing Metropolitan Region Plan

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Bingrong Leng ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Zihua Qian ◽  
Peng Li
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Metropolitan Planning

scholarly journals O controle social no planejamento municipal da educação no Brasil

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Donaldo Bello de Souza ◽  
Alzira Batalha Alcântara
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Metropolitan Planning

Throughout the process of redemocratization of Brazil (1980s), social control was synonymous with civil control by the State, aimed at the construction new social projects from an emancipatory, democratic and participative perspective. Starting in the 1990s, the concept became depoliticized from a conservatory and neoliberal perspective, creating channels of instrumental and centralized participation, bureaucratization, and segmentation. This article deals with the problems concerning social control in the scope of the municipal planning of education, focusing on the Monitoring and Social Control Council (MSCC) and the Municipal Education Council (MEC). the study considered 20 (95%) of 21 Municipal Plans of Education (MPEs) of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro (MRRJ), aligned with the new National Plan of Education (NPE) to the decennial  2014-2024, and analyzed the role attributed to these collegiate bodies in the sphere of localized social control of education. It is concluded that the MPEs reflect the statements of the NPE regarding social control and the correlated bodies (MSCC and MEC), but in a fragmented and sparse way, due to the relatively small the systematic incorporation of these actions and of the Councils roles in the decisions. It is also possible to affirm that these results express a continuation of a prescriptive failure that has lasted since the previous decennial planning (2001-2011), since these plans did not attribute a highlighted place to the Councils, thus weakening the systematic social control of education at the municipal, intermunicipal, and metropolitan planning levels.

scholarly journals The university and metropolitan planning: an innovative experience

Nova Economia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (spe) ◽  
pp. 1133-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór ◽  
Geraldo Magela Costa ◽  
Heloisa Soares de Moura Costa ◽  
Marcos Gustavo Pires de Melo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The University

Abstract: The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) has been carrying out an experience of metropolitan planning in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, since 2009, involving a significant number of faculty and students. In this paper, we highlight some of the innovative aspects of this planning process. We stress the specificities of a planning experience conducted under the auspices of the University in an attempt to move beyond both its disciplinary and academic boundaries. Therefore, we emphasize the participatory dimension in which the University team is engaged along with civil society. We also describe proposals that put the environmental concern at the forefront of metropolitan restructuring and the efforts to materialize them through a Green and Blue Weft (Trama Verde e Azul - TVA). Finally, we discuss our understanding of planning as a political process beyond the institutionalized public policy practice in an attempt to give voice and visibility to different ways of seeing and making the metropolitan region.

scholarly journals Edgeless and eccentric cities or new peripheries?

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Limonad ◽  
Heloisa Costa
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Spatial Dispersion ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution

Abstract Changes in the organisation of social space, set in motion by the third industrial revolution, affected the spatial distribution of production and population, challenging established conceptions of centralities and urban networks at different scales. Temporal continuities and simultaneities are replacing spatial ones, as urban agglomerations expand in scattered ways. Material and immaterial economic flows are followed by economic and political spatial rearrangements. Eccentric centralities outside urban agglomerations emerge as a result of these spatial movements. The concept of centre-periphery used to be essential to distinguish differences, inequalities and asymmetries in social space, but contemporary urban and metropolitan sprawl defies previous centre-periphery correlations. Our goal is to discuss the changing notion of centralities within contemporary urbanisation. Hence following a theoretical approach on centralities, poles and positioning, the spatial context of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region is explored as it is experiencing an increasing spatial dispersion of economic activities, population and political power against an historical backdrop of strong centre-periphery relationships. Finally as a closure after analysing the spatial outcome of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region and its perspectives, some questions are enrolled to help to understand the challenges posed to metropolitan planning, in the context of economic articulation with the more general global process and socio- environmental and political requirements usually prevailing at the local/metropolitan leve

scholarly journals Rooting metropolitan planning in critical theory and participatory practices: A university planning experience in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldo Costa ◽  
Heloisa Costa ◽  
Roberto Monte-Mór
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global South ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
University Planning ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
Belo Horizonte

The paper aims at contributing to the discussion about planning theory and participatory practices in the Global South by focusing on a planning experience for the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, led by faculty, researchers and students at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, between 2009 and 2019. The initiative unveils the University autonomy in designing and carrying out the metropolitan analyses and planning proposals, in adopting theoretical principles and methodologies and, in developing an outreach programme tightly linked to education and research, resulting in significant improvements in planning education, innovations in planning methodology and the potential for rooting radical planning practices in the metropolitan context. First, objects and subjects of the experience are introduced, together with the three phases of the process: the drafting of a metropolitan plan known as the Integrated Development Master Plan for the RMBH; the Metropolitan Macro-Zoning; and the review of municipal Master Plans within RMBH. Secondly, the trajectory and influences of Brazilian urban and metropolitan planning are reviewed to the extent that they fed into the experience. The discussion of municipal planning processes leads to an assessment of the experience’s main achievements. The concluding section offers some thoughts on rooting metropolitan and urban planning in critical theory and participatory practices, as a means to contribute to discussions of planning practices in the Global South.

Exploring Subbordia – the impact of suburbanisation in cross-border metropolitan regions. The case study of Szczecin and its German hinterland

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Barthel ◽  
Ewelina Barthel
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Connected Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Narratives

Abstract This paper focuses on the largely unexamined phenomenon of the developing trans-national suburban area west of Szczecin. Sadly the local communities in this functionally connected area struggle with national planning policies that are unsuitable for the region. The paper examines the impact of those processes on the border region in general and on the localities in particular. The paper investigates the consequences for local narratives and the cohesive development of the Euroregion and what position Polish and German communities took to develop the region, even without the necessary planning support. The region has succeeded in establishing grass-roots planning mechanisms which have helped to create a metropolitan-region working from the bottom up.

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