Director Plan and discursive matrices of urban sustainability: the case of the island of Itaparica.
Key-words: plan urban director, urban sustainability, discursive matrices, urbanenvironmental issue.
abstract
This research presents an analysis of the Itaparica Island master plan, approved in 2004, based on the discursive matrices of urban sustainability. The urban crisis aggravated in the last decades by the accelerated growth and disordered occupations of the urban space has increased the process social inequality and of environmental degradation mainly in countries like Brazil. The whole process of urban transformation reflected in the ways of thinking and managing cities. Issues related to the natural environment have entered the agenda of urban policies. The concept of "sustainable development" emerges at the end of the 1980s. The debates related to this theme, although they present in common the idealization of a desirable future for the urban spaces, have different approaches and representations of city, that influence the current urban planning. The challenge in planning more sustainable cities encompasses the various urban scales, but their implementation goes beyond the technical scope and points to a need for political and economic change. Equating solutions that involve preservation of environmental patrimony and social problems (unemployment, income, infrastructure, housing, etc.) put in check postulates of sustainable development as: social, economic and environmental balance. In this complex, conflictive urban context marked by contradictions and social inequalities that characterize Brazilian cities, it is possible to identify a wide variety of discursive matrices of urban sustainability. The analysis of the Itaparica island master plan thus seeks to identify which discursive urban sustainability matrixes are present in the plan and, consequently, which actions are planned, compete for a more sustainable city.