Advisor: Maria Fernanda Lemos
Dissertation: Participative Planning in Favelas as explored through the Master Plan of Rocinha
Defense date: 07/04/2017
Abstract
This research explores an understanding of social participation in the
common spatial areas of favelas. This effort evaluates the effectiveness of the
participation experience in the development of the Master Plan of Rocinha, created
by Luiz Carlos Toledo’s group in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The research evaluates
the participation project based on three criteria as proposed by Spinuzzi that identify
potentialities, deadlocks and challenges of the project. It presents a reflection on
participatory planning in Brazil, through analyzing the principles and guidelines
established in the Constitution of 1988, the Status of the City from 2001 and
Participatory Master Plan2 of the Ministry of the Cities. It also compares the
principles of participatory politics present in these documents as well as theoretical
studies of social participation itself. As the case study demonstrates the Master Plan
of the Rocinha favela considered a sampling of all the participatory elements
addressed in this research. In the final analysis, the research intends to solve the
following problem: “What is the relevance of Participatory Planning according to
the example of the Master Plan of the Rocinha Community in Rio de Janeiro?” This
research identifies itself as a work of exploratory research based on a
bibliographical survey and interviews. It thus takes the form of bibliographic
research, documental research and case study.