Uma narrativa sobre processos na formação da cidade - uma critica aos principios que fundamentam o planeamento urbano do Movimento Moderno à contemporaneidade e o entendimento da cidade como um sistema complexo.

Abstract

This work creates a critical narrative on the issues of urban planning from the Modern Movement to contemporary times. It does not propose formal responses to the problems observed, but attempts to demonstrate conceptual errors that may exist in their genesis. The product of personal reflections, observation of urban reality and study of some theoretical work, its intention is to defend a new understanding of the city and urban planning, countering the dominant paradigms. Modern Urbanism, in particular the ideas of Le Corbusier, has resulted in many of the poor urban planning principles in place today, contributing to the construction of a poorer urban environment. In contrast, authors such as Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander presented the theoretical basis, in opposition to Modernism and the dominant planning theory, which defined the scientific support of the city as a problem of organized complexity. The paper also analyzes part of the problem inherent in the concept of planning, advocating the advantages of a decentralized system and the dispersal of knowledge. Consequently, observes some of the negative effects of planning in the definition of the contemporary city, especially with regard to sprawl, mobility and the inability to respond to these problems. Finally, it analyzes some examples of informal settings outside of central controls, such as slums; showing that, during their genesis, a spontaneity of processes is essential for the development and sustainability of urban communities.