This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups to influence the planning process. Participation relates to how individuals, groups and communities are involved in the planning process. As a case study, Curitiba presents an example of how power gradients within the city influence participation in planning and how the power of planning impacts the daily lives of citizens. To explore these two themes, ethnographic research was conducted using ten key informants and more than twenty supporting informants. Additionally, participant observation methods and demographic data supplemented the respondents' statements. Three main aspects of the city's planning system -- transportation, land-use and education -- are examined. The discussion of these systems focuses on four main themes -- public participation, the role of government, the unequal provision, access and use of social services, and power relationships. The final three chapters examine the theoretical implications of this work and the application of the results to planning elsewhere. Planning in Curitiba demonstrates the inability of modernization theory to explain the multidirectional influences of planning concepts. Dependency theory and the world-systems perspectives are shown to offer better explanations of the dominance of multinational corporate interests in planning and the role Curitiba's planning systems play in incorporating residents into the broader world. Furthermore, the planning system in Curitiba shows the inability of elitist and pluralists perspectives of community power structures to capture the complexity of planning decisions. On the individual level, the resistance of shanty town residents to planning is viewed as a form of participation. Curitiba's planning systems show the importance of including the whole community in the process. Planners must encourage citizen participation and work to mobilize diverse community groups. Planning must be depoliticizing and supported through innovative leveraging of the city's resources. In promoting a city's planning identity, planners must identify the individual interests that motivate involvement in the planning process. / Graduation date: 1998

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1976. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 261-276. / M.C.P.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-20T12:50:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Rodrigues Feltran.pdf: 981201 bytes, checksum: 217a21f38d6cc9af45ffe14c1011ac5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-20T12:50:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Rodrigues Feltran.pdf: 981201 bytes, checksum: 217a21f38d6cc9af45ffe14c1011ac5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-14 / The present survey has as a theoretical framework the Urban Law and intends to be a multidisciplinary study between the areas of Law, Sociology and Urbanism, with the aim of investigating the National system of urban Mobility, limited of the urban highway system (excluding water and airway issues), as an instrument to enable the right of access to the city, under the aegis of the Right to the City. To this end, the fulfilment of the objective in a satisfactory way, the study deeply analyzes the meaning of the city and its social functions, reflecting its use and appropriation, equality and social inclusion, as well as sustainable urban development, of the National System of Urban Mobility with the legal bases of Law 12,587 of January 12, 2012, Urban Mobility Law. Direct result of the analysis allowed to identify the social externalities arising from the administrative management of the National System of Urban Mobility and the role of the State in its effectiveness, a scope of great importance in the context of large cities / A presente pesquisa possui como marco teórico o Direito Urbanístico e pretende ser um estudo multidisciplinar entre as ciências na área de Direito, Sociologia e Urbanismo, tendo como desiderato, investigar o Sistema Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana, limitado ao sistema viário urbano em vias terrestres (excluindo-se, metodologicamente, as questões viárias aquáticas e aéreas), como instrumento viabilizador do direito de acesso à cidade, sob a égide do Direito à Cidade. Com esse propósito, para que se cumpra de forma satisfatória o objetivo, o estudo analisa com profundidade o sentido de cidade e suas funções sociais, refletindo sobre seu uso e apropriação, igualdade e inclusão social, assim como o desenvolvimento urbano sustentável, entrecruzando a gestão do Sistema Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana com os fundamentos legais da Lei nº 12.587, de 12 de janeiro de 2012, Lei de Mobilidade Urbana. A decorrência da análise permitiu identificar as externalidades sociais advindas da gestão administrativa do Sistema Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana e o papel do Estado na sua efetividade, escopo de larga importância no contexto das grandes cidades