All rights reservedMenezes Rodrigues, RobertaBarroso Miranda, Thalesde Miranda Tavares, Ana CarolinaCassiano Lima, Alberto Patrick2024-10-032024-10-032016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2020Proceedings 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 southThis proposal intends to discuss the need to adopt new urban parameters and environmental sanitation in urban projects of slums in Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) in the Amazonian context, focusing on the city of Belém (capital of Pará State). In a city whose historic urbanization process is so closely related to the conditions of the river system in the landscape, it can be inferred that there is conceptual elaboration possibilities of relations between urbanization and water. In the case of the city of Belém and its regional surroundings, the varied territorial forms that accompanied and expressed this process of urbanization exhibit structural components of this historic relationship. Belém is located at the confluence of the Guamá River with the Bay of Guajará, intersected by several water courses and flooded areas. These geographical features proved to be an important factor in structuring their urban space and ended up representing a hindrance to urban expansion of the city, requiring a constant "struggler" against the wetlands (PENTEADO, 1968; MOREIRA,1966). On the other hand, the urban conformation of Belém structured "interstices" which, especially during the twentieth century, led the design of the lowland areas, which manifest the first characteristics of housing informality design developed today: physical precariousness of housing, the lack infrastructure, lack of regular subdivision and land irregularity. This process follows a Brazilian tendency with respect to the pattern of occupation of slums, from which the urban poor would be set, usually on public land, devalued, inadequate, fragility/environmental protection (BUENO, 2009). The strategies of occupation of these areas by the poor families include intensive land use, occupying the wetlands through construction adapted to the Amazon floodplain as the “palafita” and “estiva” under high constructive and population density in consolidated urban conditions.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1174-1177