The Change of Morphology and Function of Public Spaces: Case Study of Latakia Since French Mandate till 2010 Yara Issa Abstract: This thesis explores the history and the practice of making use of squares in Syria in 20th century, particularly in the Syrian coastal city: Latakia. The thesis mainly focuses on the period from the beginning of the twentieth century till 2010. The thesis understands squares as a kind of urban public spaces in cities, which have a tradition ever since the Ancient times, and correspond to the Mediterranean concept of the city. It examines their morphological and functional transformation throughout history, analyzes the squares of Latakia and assets them according to special criteria for successful squares which have been articulated by occidental urban planners and architects. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[pt] Entre os anos que coincidiram com o Estado Novo (1937-1945), a cidade do Rio de Janeiro, então Distrito Federal, passou por diversas e profundas reformas urbanas que a transformariam de maneira monumental. Promovidas pelo prefeito Henrique Dodsworth através da Comissão do Plano da Cidade, órgão vinculado diretamente à Secretaria de Viação e Obras, as intervenções tinham como objetivo a modernização da cidade, encarada como uma simples projeção, em escala maior, do presente no futuro. Sua justificativa era embasada pela apropriação dos preceitos do urbanismo como discurso legítimo e científico sobre a Cidade. Por outro lado, Dodsworth construía uma memória política que o ligava a uma tradição de prefeitos que remontava, pelo viés tecnicista, à Pereira Passos e, dessa forma, também concorria para sobrepor o nacional ao local, o Distrito Federal à cidade. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o Rio de Janeiro de Henrique Dodsworth sob o prisma de uma dupla intervenção, política e urbanística, e assim tentar captar seus efeitos na dinâmica da urbe carioca. / [en] Beetween years that coincide with the Estado Novo (1937-1945), the city of Rio de Janeiro, at that time Federal District, passed by serveral and deep urban reforms that would transform it in a monumental way. They were promoted by Henrique Dodsworth trough Comissão do Plano da Cidade, an organ tied directly to Secretaria de Viação e Obras. The interventions were in order to promote the modernization of the city, treated as a simple projection, in a bigger scale, of the present into the future. Its justification was based by the apropriation of the urbanism’s precepts as a legitimate and scientific speech of the City. On the other hand, Dodsworth constructed a political memory that linked him to a mayor’s tradition back to Pereira Passos in a thechnicist bias and, in this way, he also applied for overlaping the national sphere to the local one, the Federal District to the city. The present work intends to analyse the Rio de Janeiro of Henrique Dodsworth by the prism of a doble intervention, political and urbanistic ones, and it tries to capture its effects in the carioca’s urbs dynamic.

A cidade de Santa Maria, em razão de sua localização no centro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul e da grande acessibilidade às demais regiões, tornou‐se um polo regional de grande significação para a economia do Estado. Em consequência disso, ocorreu um elevado crescimento urbano, que se acelerou ainda mais a partir da construção do entroncamento ferroviário, que tornou a cidade o maior centro ferroviário do Rio Grande do Sul. A população da região cresceu de 5.110 habitantes, em 1858, para 30.185, em 1900. O núcleo urbano, nesse período, passou de 2.905 para 13.628 habitantes. Além do mais, em razão dessa função, a cidade apresentava uma intensa circulação de pessoas e mercadorias, num local sem nenhuma infraestrutura e equipamentos para suportar esse crescimento. Os problemas já existentes agravaram‐se, com destaque aos de saneamento. A exigência de um projeto para a solução desses problemas era evidente. Para tal tarefa foi chamado o Engenheiro Saturnino de Brito, que, em 1918, apresentou um plano, envolvendo estudos de saneamento, sistema viário e embelezamento. Depois desse, outros planos foram elaborados, porém sempre dando continuidade às ideias já apresentadas por Brito. O objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar como Santa Maria enfrentou os seus primeiros problemas de saneamento e como o projeto de Brito serviu de base aos demais planos que se sucederam, apesar de ele não ter sido concluído quanto à sua implantação. A hipótese levantada é a de que o plano de saneamento elaborado por Brito foi também um plano urbanístico que iniciou o processo de planejamento de Santa Maria. / The city of Santa Maria, due to its location in the heart of Rio Grande do Sul State and great accessibility to the other regions, became a regional pole of great significance to the state economy. As a consequence, occurred a high urban growth, that accelerated even more with the construction of the railway junction, which has made this city the biggest railway center of Rio Grande do Sul State. The region's population grew from 5,110 inhabitants in 1858 to 30,185 in 1900. The urban nucleus in this period increased from 2,905 to 13,628 inhabitants. Moreover, on grounds of this function, the city had an intense movement of people and goods in a place without any infrastructure and equipment to support this growth. The already existing problems were compounded, with prominence to sanitation. The requirement of a project to the solution of those problems was evident. For such a task it was called the engineer Saturnino de Brito, who, in 1918, presented a plan, involving studies sanitation, road system and beautification. After that, other plans were drawn up, but always continuing with the ideas already presented by Brito. The objective of this work is to show how Santa Maria faced its first sanitation problems and how Brito’s project served as the basis for other plans that followed, even though had not been completed as to its implantation. The hypothesis is that the sanitation plan prepared by Brito was also an urban plan that started the process of planning for Santa Maria.

Este trabalho de pesquisa investiga o uso da fotografia como ferramenta de trabalho para o urbanismo a partir da análise de um estudo de caso: a atuação do urbanista e fotógrafo gaúcho Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria (1908-1954), cuja relevância de sua atuação profissional em muito contribuiu para a constituição e consolidação do urbanismo no Rio Grande do Sul como campo profissional, e, de maneira pioneira fez uso sistemático da fotografia em seus trabalhos de urbanismo. Como “recorte serial”, foi estabelecida a série documental do conjunto iconográfico que conforma o Acervo Fotográfico de Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria – Acervo LAUF. Foram analisados grupos de imagens que, através de suas narrativas, puderam contribuir com o seguinte questionamento de pesquisa: de que maneiras Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria fez uso da fotografia como instrumento de trabalho para seu métier de urbanista no Rio Grande do Sul no período de 1926 a 1954? A partir de uma abordagem historiográfica a pesquisa assume como aporte teórico estruturador a indissociabilidade da tríade sujeito (fotógrafo), tecnologia (equipamento) e assunto (tema abordado) descrita por Kossoy. Nortearam a investigação as hipóteses de que Ubatuba de Faria tivesse feito uso de sua técnica de fotografar para o desempenho de seu trabalho enquanto urbanista, e da possibilidade de toda a produção fotográfica de Ubatuba de Faria tivesse contribuído de forma direta ou indireta para sua produção como urbanista. Ainda, considerou-se que o exercício de fotografar pudesse ter aguçado sua leitura do espaço urbano e das relações sociais inerentes ao urbanismo e que esta leitura realizada através de suas lentes, tenha, inclusive, contribuído na construção de seu entendimento do urbano e das questões relacionadas ao urbanismo em um processo de retroalimentação. O método contemplou duas dimensões de aproximação: uma dimensão laboratorial e uma dimensão analítica/ classificatória. A primeira abordou o conjunto de procedimentos técnicos que promoveu a salvaguarda do acervo. A segunda desenvolveu um quadro analítico constituído pela articulação das estratégias de análise de conteúdo e semiótica de imagens, através de uma abordagem qualitativa. Foram objetivos da pesquisa contribuir para o conhecimento do trabalho e da trajetória de Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria enquanto urbanista com ênfase na sua produção fotográfica, bem como identificar as formas de uso da fotografia como ferramenta de trabalho para o urbanismo praticadas pelo urbanista. Por fim, objetivou-se dar visibilidade ao vasto acervo fotográfico identificado, visto que o trabalho de pesquisa empreendido apresenta e investiga um acervo inédito, com significativo valor documental e artístico. / This research investigates the use of photography as a work tool for urbanism from the analysis of a case study: the performance of the Gaucho urbanist and photographer Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria (1908-1954). The relevance of his professional activity contributed greatly to the constitution and consolidation of urbanism in Rio Grande do Sul as a professional field, and he, in a pioneering way, made a systematic use of photography in his endeavors of urbanism. As a "serial clipping", the documental series of the iconographic set that constitutes the Photographic Collection of Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria (LAUF Collection) was established. Groups of images were analyzed, who, through their narratives, could contribute to the following research inquiry: in what ways Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria made use of photography as a working tool for his urbanist métier in Rio Grande do Sul in the period of 1926 to 1954? From a historiographical approach, the research assumes as a theoretical and structuring contribution the indissociability of the triad: entity (photographer), technology (equipment) and subject (subject matter) described by Kossoy. The investigation was based on the hypotheses that Ubatuba de Faria made use of his photographic technique for the performance of his work as an urbanist, and the possibility of all his photographic production to have contributed directly or indirectly to his production as a city planner. In addition, it was considered that the exercise of photographing could have sharpened his reading of the urban space and of the social relations inherent to urbanism, and that this reading realized through his lenses could have contributed to the construction of his urban understanding and of the issues related to urbanism in a feedback process. The method contemplates two dimensions of approach: a laboratorial dimension and an analytical/classificatory one. The first dealt with the set of technical procedures which promoted the safeguarding of the collection. The second one developed an analytical framework constituted by the articulation of the strategies of content analysis and semiotics of images, through a qualitative approach. The objectives of the research were to contribute to the knowledge of the work and of the trajectory of Luiz Arthur Ubatuba de Faria as an urbanist with an emphasis on his photographic production, as well as to identify his ways of using photography as a work tool for urbanism. Finally, it was aimed to give visibility to the vast photographic collection identified, as the research undertaken presents and investigates an unpublished collection, with significant documental and artistic value.

A dissertação responde ao desafio de Bernard Secchi (2012), que afirma o urbanismo como um discurso, no qual se podem encontrar figuras de linguagem. Depois de apresentar as vantagens de interpretar essas figuras, Secchi revela que não é na cidade, mas no jardim, que talvez seja possível encontrá-las. O trabalho desenvolveu uma pesquisa sistemática, obedecendo ao tempo e à localização de exemplos significativos de espaços públicos e parques urbanos, o que permitiu a identificação de figuras do discurso paisagístico. A análise percorreu as vertentes francesa e inglesa e os parques referenciais brasileiros. As figuras e metáforas urbanas identificadas e interpretadas foram objeto de reflexão e também sinalizaram novas rotas de pesquisa. / This essay is a response to the challenge of Bernard Secchi (2012), who affirms that urbanism is a language in which one can find forms of speech. After presenting the advantages of interpreting these figures, Secchi concludes that it is not in the city, but in the garden where they are possibly to be found. This study followed a systematic method of research, considering criteria such as time and the location of significant examples of public spaces and urban parks, which allowed the identification of the aforementioned figures in landscaping. The analysis covered the French and English styles as well as specimen Brazilian parks of particular interest. The identified urban figures and metaphors were the object of further reflection and also led to new research routes.

Cette étude porte sur les influences réciproques du « Plan Poggi » (projet d’agrandissement de Florence) et des relations diplomatiques, politiques, militaires et économiques entre l’Italie et les Puissances européennes, en particulier la France et le Saint-Siège, depuis la « Convention de Septembre » 1864 jusqu’à la « Porta Pia » en 1870, puis le transfert de la capitale à Rome en 1871. Viendra ensuite une analyse de l’état d’esprit de la population face aux bouleversements économiques et sociaux entraînés par l'arrivée du gouvernement, à travers les témoignages des acteurs politiques, des habitants, de l’architecture, de l’art, de la littérature, de la Presse. Enfin, sera analysée l'influence de ces modifications urbaines, sociales, sur les mentalités, sur la perception du patrimoine culturel et historique. En conclusion, sera menée une analyse des conséquences de la perte du statut de capitale sur les mentalités et les projets d'urbanisme, avec en particulier la « Question Florentine », concernant le subventionnement par l'Etat d'une partie des travaux liés aux institutions gouvernementales, encore non achevés au départ de la capitale, qui vont grever les finances de la municipalité, jusqu'à la mener à la faillite dans les années 1880.Il a été mené une accentuation de la recherche sur les questions militaires, qui sont d'une grande importance à l'époque ; en effet, le transfert de la capitale de Turin à Florence conduit à repenser totalement le système stratégique de l'Etat-Major militaire italien, ainsi que le système de défense de la ville promue au rang de capitale (ainsi qu'à réduire sensiblement celui de Turin, qui peut cependant rester une importante base d'attaque contre l'ennemi Autrichien) : les manœuvres de 1869 en sont l'exemple concret. L' accentuation des revendications en, et sur la Vénétie (qui conduiront à la guerre en 1866) provoquent un basculement stratégique : le bas-Pô gagne en importance par rapport au Mincio. L'armée est ainsi une des clés de la concrétisation des projets urbanistiques du Risanamento Florentin, imposant sa marque dans le paysage, par la construction de casernes (parfois aux dépends d'équipement de salubrité publique), et la planification d'importantes zones d'exercices militaires, le Campo di Marte dont la localisation fera l'objet de nombreuses polémiques et discussions. La réorganisation de Florence en ville vitrine du nouveau royaume, de la nouvelle Italie unitaire et de la nouvelle bourgeoisie libérale doit également (comme à Paris) être une ville permettant des manœuvres militaires efficaces et faciles.Il s'agira également d'étudier dans quelle mesure les opérations et la stratégie militaires ont conditionné la construction des infrastructures ferroviaires, autre point important de l'urbanisme de Florence capitale, avec les débats sur la construction et la localisation d'une nouvelle gare en remplacement de l'ancienne, et désaffectée, Stazione Leopolda : la localisation des voies conditionne l'urbanisme, mais subit des contraintes stratégiques, Florence devenant rapidement (même si la ville avait déjà joué un rôle similaire, quoiqu'à une bien moindre mesure en 1859 contre l'Autriche, avec l'arrivée massive de volontaires venus s'enrôler en ville) un carrefour ferroviaire (et routier) permettant de faire remonter vers le Nord le gros de l'armée italienne, employée au début des années 1860 dans le Sud pour réprimer le Brigantismo. / This study concerns the mutual influences of the "Plan Poggi" (project of Florence's enlargement) and diplomatic, political, military and economic relations between Italy and the European Powers, particularly France and Holy See, since the 1864 " September Convention " until the breach of " Porta Pia " in 1870, and the transfer of the capital city in Rome in 1871. An analysis of the population's state of mind in front of economic and social upheavals pulled by the arrival of the government, through political actors, inhabitants, architecture, art, literature and Press testimonies will come then. Finally, the influence of these urban, social modifications on the mentalities, on the perception of the cultural and historic heritage will be analyzed. In conclusion, will come an analysis of the consequences of the loss of the status of capital city on the mentalities and on the urban planning projects, with in particular the "Florentine Question ", e.g the subsidization by the State of a part of the works bound to the governmental institutions, still not finished when the capital city leaves Florence, which are going to burden the finances of the municipality, and lead it to bankruptcy in the 1880s. An accentuation of the research on the military questions, which are of a big importance for the period, seems important; actually, the transfer of the capital city from Turin to Florence leads to totally rethink the strategic system of the Italian military General commandment, as well as the defensive system of the city promoted to the rank of capital (as well as to drastically reduce Turin's own, which however remain an important base for attacks against the Austrian enemy): the 1869 military exercise are the concrete example. The accentuation of the claiming for Venetia (which will drive to the war in 1866) provokes a strategic shift: the Lower Po Valley grows importance compared to the Mincio. The army is one of the keys of the realization of the urbanisation projects of Florentine Risanamento, posing its marks in the landscape, by the construction of barracks (sometimes at the expense of public health equipment), and the planning of important zones of military exercises, e.g the "Campo di Marte" whose localization will be object of numerous debates and discussions. Florence's reorganization in model town of the new kingdom, the new unitarian Italy and the new liberal bourgeoisie also owes (as in Paris) to be a city allowing effective and easy military operations.It will also be a question of studying to what extent the military operations and the strategy conditioned the construction of the railroad infrastructures, other important point of the town planning of Florence, with the debates on the construction and the location of a new station as a replacement of the former, and closed down, Stazione Leopolda: the location of circulation ways determines the town planning, but has to face strategic constraints, as Florence quickly becoming (even if the city had already played a similar role, although in a much lesser measure in 1859 against Austria, with the volunteers' massive arrival coming to enlist in the army) a railway and road junction allowing to make the main part of the Italian army go back to the north, used since the beginning of 1860s on the south to repress the Brigantismo.

O período do Estado Novo (1937-1945) foi marcado pela busca de progresso e de modernidade em âmbito nacional, e, em Porto Alegre, essa busca tomou forma em um processo de remodelação urbana, implantada pelo prefeito da cidade, Loureiro da Silva, sob a orientação do urbanista Arnaldo Gladosch e dos técnicos locais Ubatuba de Faria e Edvaldo P. Paiva. As intervenções, assim como os problemas urbanos de Porto Alegre, foram amplamente noticiados, no período, pelo jornal Correio do Povo. Este trabalho buscou apontar como as intervenções na cidade e a elaboração de um plano diretor, quando divulgados pelo jornal Correio do Povo, disseminaram, também, o anseio pela modernidade. O estudo adota a hipótese de que a imprensa em Porto Alegre, sobretudo o jornal Correio do Povo, durante o período do Estado Novo, propagava e promovia as novas teorias do urbanismo. O trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a evolução do urbanismo na cidade de Porto Alegre durante o Estado Novo, ao longo da administração de Loureiro da Silva, na leitura das publicações do jornal Correio do Povo. Está estruturado em três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo aborda o período do Estado Novo em Porto Alegre, relacionando os principais acontecimentos urbanísticos da cidade, no contexto da época. No segundo capítulo, apresenta-se o papel da imprensa, e principalmente, do jornal Correio do Povo na capital. O terceiro capítulo traz para a análise dos textos do jornal, sobre as intervenções pela qual a cidade passava. Um achado importante é de que as notícias do Correio do Povo revelam, subjacente aos textos oficiais e aos projetos elaborados à época, a introdução na capital de novas idéias e tendências do urbanismo. / The period of the “Estado Novo” (1937-1945) was marked by the search of progress and of modernity nationwide and, in Porto Alegre, that search took form in a process of urban remodeling, implanted by the mayor of the city, Loureiro da Silva, under the orientarion of urbanist Arnaldo Gladosch and local technicians Ubatuba de Faria and Edvaldo P. Paiva. Those interventions, as well as the urban problems of Porto Alegre, were widely reported, at that time, on the newspaper “Correio do Povo”. This study has aimed to point out how the interventions in the city and the elaboration of a master urban plan, when published by the newspaper “Correio do Povo”, also disseminated the longing for modernity and the nationalism, and they introduced new urban ideas underlying the official texts and the projects elaborated at that time. The study adopts the hypothese that the press in Porto Alegre, specially the newspaper Correio do Povo, during the period of the Estado Novo, spread out and promoted the new theories on urbanization. The study has as objective investigating the evolution of the urbanism in the city of Porto Alegre, during the “Estado Novo”, along the administration of Loureiro da Silva, in the readings of the newspaper “Correio do Povo” . It is structured in three chapters. The first chapter approaches the period of the “Estado Novo” in Porto Alegre, relating the most important urban events of the city, in the context of the time. In the second chapter, it is presented the press role in the capital, mainly Correio do Povo’s one. The third chapter brings the analyses of the newspaper’s texts, on the interventions in the city. An important finding is that the reports of Correio do Povo disclose the introduction in the capital of new ideas and trends in urbanism, underlying the oficial texts and projects elaborated at that time.

abstract: Scholars have called for better understanding of the generative process, a process underlying the creation of urban form that often has positive qualities such as coherence, human scale, flexibility, and adaptability. The generative process is incremental and continually refined, producing urban settlements that respond to feedback. Redefining the pattern language as a system of knowledge generation, and a method to acquire essential information and re-create historical contexts, this dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the generative process and the corresponding urban codes of traditional cities. The dissertation consists of three complete yet interconnecting articles. The first article examines the structural components of the generative process— place-based norms and urban codes—and their roles in generative development. Two traditions of urbanism with distinctive and coherent forms and different levels of imposed regulations were investigated: medieval European and Arabic-Islamic. The study finds that place-based norms are the core of any generative process. Whenever written codes do not control urban space, these norms emerge to operationalize the building process. The second article investigates the generative process through the operationality of patterns, properties, and a sequence in the creation of the traditional form of the town of Hoian, Vietnam. The recurrence of each property and the pattern of its repetition in urban elements are investigated to assess the impact of generative forces on the urban form of Hoian. Fifteen of Alexander’s properties and ten of Lynch’s qualities were also combined into a set of twenty properties of urban elements. Finally, the third article observes and then explores the unfolding of the generative process using the virtual online platform OpenSim, thereby verifying the operationality of the generative process revealed in the previous two articles. The paper substantiates the proposition that the generative system includes patterns and urban properties that can serve as rules for directing urban growth. These rules build diverse and unified urban settlements. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geography 2015

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2016-06-29T13:15:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9261150 bytes, checksum: 9d3504c160aeaff8098462fb8826e2bf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-29T13:15:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9261150 bytes, checksum: 9d3504c160aeaff8098462fb8826e2bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In the universe of research that make intercession between film and architecture and urbanism, a framework dominated by panoramic approaches is identified. In contrast, the present study aims deepening this relationship by looking at intercessions in a specific movie - Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1927). Representative of the film genre known as 'urban symphonies', the film builds in its narrative a generic day in the late 1920s of Berlin; thus, makes room to try to understand the historical context, the customs of the, then called, Weimar Republic, the centre of a rich architectural and urban culture, embryo of the modern movement, which propagated at the time by the publications by the Bauhaus, the Novembergruppe , and the magazine G: Material Elementaren zur Gestaltung. In this research, it is questioned the film's ability to represent, as well as an episode of the urban history of Berlin for showing the daily life in the city, to also represent an episode of the history of town planning, as it uses cinema’s own tools to allude to a functionality and rationality desired by theorists and planners of the time, represented here by architect Ludwig Hilberseimer’s theory. On the path, this research will deal with the relationship between cinema and the city, in addition to film, architectural and urban culture of the time that is expressed in the film and the avant-garde theories that marked the twentieth century. / No universo das pesquisas que fazem intercessão entre o cinema e a arquitetura e urbanismo, se identifica um quadro onde predominam as abordagens panorâmicas. Em oposição, a presente pesquisa tem por meta se aprofundar nesta relação ao observar intercessões em um filme específico - Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, Alemanha, 1927). Representativo do gênero cinematográfico conhecido como ‘sinfonias urbanas’, o filme constrói em sua narrativa um dia genérico na Berlim do final da década de 1920; com isso, abre espaço para se procurar entender o contexto histórico, os modos, costumes da então República de Weimar, centro de uma rica cultura arquitetônica e urbanística, embrionária do movimento moderno, que se propagava na época através de publicações da Bauhaus, do Novembergruppe, da revista G: Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung. Na pesquisa questiona- se a capacidade do filme de representar, além de um episódio da história urbana de Berlim, por mostrar o dia a dia na cidade, representar também um episódio da história do urbanismo, por utilizar-se de ferramentas próprias do cinema para aludir a funcionalidade e racionalidade almejadas pelos teóricos urbanistas da época, representados pela teoria do arquiteto Ludwig Hilberseimer. No percurso será tratada a relação entre cinema e cidade. além de se mergulhar na cultura cinematográfica, arquitetônica e urbanística deste momento que é expressa no filme e nas teorias de vanguarda que marcaram o século XX.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:56:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PatriciaODPC.pdf: 2433640 bytes, checksum: 179595ba8b3403cd8796a38b40c21bd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-06 / This work supports the formalist education s improvement of the Brazilian architect and urban designer through a better application and systematization of the computer science s teaching potentialities. The research analyzes the discipline introduction in the Brazilian courses: Computer Science Applied to Architecture and Urbanism (InfoAU) in the Architecture and Urbanism Courses of Brazil (CAUs). It goes since the discipline was obligated by the MEC s Regulation nr. 1.770 from 1994 until the CNE/CES Resolution nr. 6 from 2006; it comprehends the discipline implantation, development and current context, in order to get more detailed, the research analyses three federal universities from the Northeast of the country: UFRN, UFPB and UFPE. Once identified the historical educational needs in the CAUs, the study focus on the computer science s increasing potential as an agent of integration, communication, development and knowledge/data management. It points out new social perspectives for a better use of this tool/mechanism, which adequately structuralized and integrated, creates propitious educational and professional performance/recycling conditions and a propeller instrument of research and extension activities. Among this work, it is suggested the aggregation of elements, which are complementary to the InfoAU discipline s reorganization, throughout a computerization s plan for the CAUs, extensive to the professional formation, generating a virtuous cycle in several activities of the academic, administrative and, research and extension s departments. Therefore, the InfoAU in the Brazilian CAUs context was analyzed; the main solutions and problems found were systemized; the possibilities of computer science s uses inside AU ware structuralized, InfoAU discipline s improvement plan was also defined, as well as strategies for the implementation of the computerization s plan for the CAUs, which would guarantee its maintenance in a continuity perspective / Este trabalho defende o aprimoramento da educa??o formal do arquiteto e urbanista brasileiro atrav?s de uma melhor aplica??o e sistematiza??o das potencialidades da inform?tica. Nele analisou-se a inser??o nacional da mat?ria: Inform?tica Aplicada ? Arquitetura e Urbanismo (InfoAU) nos Cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (CAUs) desde sua obrigatoriedade pela Portaria MEC n? 1770 de 1994 at? a Resolu??o CNE/CES n? 6 de 2006; atrav?s da implanta??o, desenvolvimento e contexto atual e, de forma mais detalhada, em tr?s Institui??es Federais de Ensino Superior (IFES) da Regi?o Nordeste do Brasil: UFRN, UFPB e UFPE. O estudo focou no potencial crescente da inform?tica como agente de integra??o, comunica??o, desenvolvimento e gerenciamento de conhecimentos/informa??es e aponta novas perspectivas para o melhor uso desta ferramenta/mecanismo, adequadamente estruturado e integrado, permitindo condi??es propiciais de ensino, atua??o/atualiza??o profissional e instrumento propulsor de atividades de pesquisa e de extens?o. Com este trabalho prop?s se a agrega??o de elementos complementares ? reestrutura??o da mat?ria de InfoAU obtendo um plano de informatiza??o dos CAUs, extensiva ? forma??o profissional gerando um ciclo virtuoso nas diversas atividades acad?micas, administrativas, de pesquisa e extens?o dos cursos. Assim, seq?encialmente, foi analisado o contexto de InfoAU em CAUs brasileiros; sistematizados os principais problemas e solu??es encontrados; estruturadas as possibilidades de usos da inform?tica dentro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (AU), bem como definidas recomenda??es de melhorias no ensino de InfoAU e de estrat?gias para implementa??o de um plano de informatiza??o dos CAUs, que venham a garantir sua manuten??o em uma perspectiva de continuidade