Descaminhos entre planejamento governamental e planejamento urbano: o ciclo de política pública federal no período 2003 a 2016

Abstract

The struggle for urban reform, which would come to be enshrined in the 1988 Federal Constitution and the Estatuto da Cidade in 2001, would reach a material dimension with the creation of the Ministry of Cities and the National Council of Cities in January 2003. Finally, the Federal Government's action focused on building an urban development agenda based on popular participation and dedicated to promoting the ideal: "City for All." However, the scope and breadth of this ideal did not fully correspond to the dream. Among the various justifications and analyses that try to explain why the ideal was not achieved, little attention is paid to the role delegated to urban planning: regulatory, sometimes symbolic, fragile as a structuring public policy for the city and of low significance for government planning. In view of this gap, the research focuses on analyzing the relevance and governmental scope of this policy. Based on the public policy cycle approach, the research seeks to analyze the process of the federal urban planning public policy (period from 2003 to 2016) based on government commitment documents, technical guidelines for the urban development and planning policy, resolutions of the National Council of Cities, government planning instruments and budget allocation (PPA, LOA, LDO) and accountability reports. In this section, the research analyzes the framework of weaknesses of this public policy, characterized by a non-pragmatic, non-strategic approach and results, when achievable, only achievable in the medium and long term, which hindered dialogue with the urgent demands engraved by social, political and budgetary time, central elements of the process of building public policies in Brazil.