REFLECTIONS ON THE ROLE OF MASTER PLANS: THE ELDORADO AND MIMESIS OF PLANNING IN MARINGÁ - PARANÁ

Abstract

Doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2015.12378

The Master Plans must suit as a theoretical-methodological instrument which knows the city’s area and points out a prophylaxis for political practices that endorses the search of an almost ideal city for its population. The present article has as objective to discuss the role played by population in the formulation of guidelines of Municipal Master Plans and effectiveness of the contents of these to defend and guarantee the right of the town, taking as an example the context of political processes and the characteristics of that document in Maringá, Paraná. It was observed that the guidelines support the upper class interests, dominates in relation to power, putting pressure for the urban infrastructure created by public agents to meet their wishes, above all, the real estate market. The Master Plan comes with a false solution for narrowing the socio-economic differences, as the ideas and proposals of prophylaxis for implementation of right to the city present a false reality, and that by its shallow and inefficient content is understood as mimetic form. Above all, the Master Plans represent a mechanism for the exploitation of the city’s wealth, metaphorically mentioned as the “Eldorado” of a city’s planning, because subsidizing the increase of capital interests; it represents a rich source of exploitation in the socio-economic relations.