The use of geovisualization as a tool for citizen participation in urban planning development
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2016
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The Brazilian City Statute (Law 10.257) establishes the protection of citizen participation in urban planning. In practice, however, the methodological processes to effect this participation do not materialize. As an example of this statement, this study presents analysis of the second phase of meetings held for the citizen participation in Urban Consortium Operation Antonio Carlos East-West (“Operação Urbana Consorciada Antônio Carlos Leste-Oeste”). These meetings occurred in the first semester of 2015 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The theme of these meetings was the participation of an experts group for studying urban parameters to be adopted in the above mentioned Urban Operation, which among other relevant areas of the city includes the region of Pampulha.
The process of assembling this Urban Operation has gone through several levels of planning and citizen participation. In previous version it suffered serious criticism from popular movements and since 2014 the City Hall started to discuss it in public conferences as a way to legitimize this urban instrument. In early 2015, the City Hall has promoted specific meetings to deal with urban parameters to be adopted by the Urban Operation.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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