Uma análise do potencial participativo e deliberativo do processo de revisão do plano diretor municipal de Curitiba (2014)

Abstract

This project aims to report the relationship between democracy and participation, rescued in the Brazilian democratization period, as a result of the strengthening of social movements and the civil society's organization as political actors and the importance conquered by it, in the elaboration of new forms of direct participation in the governmental structure. These new forms of participation are presented based on the literature that examines and points to the limitations in the institutional model of participation and deliberation of the participating institutions. In this perspective, for the analysis of the Urban Master Plan of Curitiba, six points were examined, as follows: 1) Functions and utilization of participation arenas; 2) Selection and mobilization of participants; 3) Deliberation; 4) Relationship of participating arenas; 5) Effectiveness of participating practices; and 6) Utilization of Communication and Information Technologies (CIT´s). From this, the potentialities and limitations of participation, representation and deliberation in the Urban Master Plan/Curitiba were determined. It was observed that the model proposed for the revision of the Urban Master Plan/Curitiba foresees various participation venues, with different goals and functions, which can embrace a broad spectrum of actors and participants. It is noted that the main obstacles for the deliberation in this process are the traditional methodologies used in the participating experiments and the utilization of virtual spaces to stimulate and deepen the public debate. In general, it can be affirmed that despite being a process of public rectification, the Urban Master Plan/Curitiba presents a model that enables the direct participation in talking about the most important questions and issues to the city, discussion and formulation of proposals for the revision of the regulation in question, increasing the probability of influencing the decision process.