A natureza pode modelar a cidade?

Abstract

As the environmental question becomes a priority in regional and urban planning, a need to integrate development proposals surges, with instruments for territorial ordering, considering the determinants and sustainability of the natural resources. The Brazilian law, based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, defines territorial ordering as a key point in the development policy, emphasizing environmental preservation. Throughout the last decade, in the Santa Catarina State the programs “Ecologic-Economic Zoning” and “Coast Management” were developed, both programs incorporating this integrated vision of physical and territorial development ordering. With these programs have surged a proposal for occupation and organization for urban and regional spaces for two different and yet important landscapes present in the State: the valleys and the coast. Based on the gradual utilization of urban densities which should be adequate to the vulnerability of the natural resources, new model for the urban spaces and volumes has been proposed. In the present work we discuss the manner how environmental aspects considered in planning actions can shape the city. We propose as well that the territorial planning, once regarding the determinants imposed by the natural environment, can allow a more balanced occupation, interposing sustainable urban spaces with areas of diverse levels of conservation, agriculture areas and specific areas, such as theme parks, ecological parks, coast tourism, etc.