A função e o jogo no ambiente urbano. Cidade latino-americana, corporação Amereida, Valparaíso

Abstract

Directly related with the "rational evolution" of urban science, functional planning became a powerful (and sometimes dangerous) instrument of control - usually far from individual impulses and opinions. Nevertheless, the absolute "consensus" of rational urbanism springs new forms of life (and construction), whose informal character escapes the most generalist planned solutions. It is the aim of this investigation to study these alternatives and the way they relate themselves (or not) with the formal city. The game (here associated with the concept of liberty) will be stronger within the informality, in the sense that the process of its formation implies a more direct and interactive approach with the urban environment, creating "self-organized" spaces in permanent renovation - an "anti-city", more tolerant and participative, living together with the "official" city. This antagonism will be placed in Latin America, where each approach would find its extreme either in the traditional Latin American City (function) or the experiment that is the Open City (game). In this sense, the City of Valparaíso will be the foothold for a final balance about the necessary "complementarity" of these two concepts (game and function).