Planejamento urbano e meio-ambiente: os moradores e a dinâmica urbana do município de Barreirinhas MA

Abstract

Ever since mankind began to modify Nature s landscape to be settled in a certain spot, they had already caused some sort of impact to the environment, however it suffice to say that this impact took a global scale position only after the Industrial Revolution (18th Century). It is not coherent to conceive sustainable development without planning; therefore urban planning is the basic setting tool of every town planning process and urban development politics, which is compulsory to towns of twenty thousand inhabitants or more and with touristic attractions. Home of more than fifty thousand inhabitants, the city of Barreirinhas is placed in a environmental protection also dependant on touristic activities, named Lençois Maranhenses National Park, thence, area planning is extremely required to organize the region development. The present work regards the importance to investigate if the environmental issues have been receiving proper attention over the urban planning at Barreirinhas, using the Municipal Master Plan and the Area Law (Lei de Zoneamento) as guidelines, mapping the city fragilities and potentials together with the relation between the social elements and urban dynamics. The survey revealed that the mentioned city, though being one of Maranhão state post cards, still lacks basic needs such as infrastructure, health and education. The quick development of the city induced the social elements a tighter relationship, but at the same time distant from tourism, which someway feels that its activity influences the city dynamics, but does it still under its potential. The natives, who first saw the tourism as a propeller of the local economy, notice the lost of some traditions due to the constant cultural changes.