All Rights ReservedMagela Costa, Geraldode Melo Monte-Mór, Roberto LuísWatson, VanessaRoy, Ananya2025-02-132025-02-132016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2698Proceedings 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 southNational Constitution produced the institutional support and legitimacy for propositions and actions that involve civil society in the process of planning. Metropolitan planning, experienced as a federal and state technocratic practice during the military governments, lost its momentum during the redemocratization process of the 1980s and only in this century was it restored. In Belo Horizonte, UFMG, the federal university, has played a central role in metropolitan planning since 2009, working with the State, municipalities and organized popular sectors and communities. A methodology based on participatory processes reoriented planning approaches to emphasize life space as opposed to abstract space, while focusing on metropolitan restructuring based on a blue-and-green-weft and on the construction of urbanity and metropolitan citizenship. These experiences have raised questions about planning practices and theories as they bring transdisciplinary approaches to academic teaching, researching and university practices and relations beyond its walls.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject40-42