Urbanização de favelas: análise das capacidades institucionais no âmbito do Plano de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) na cidade de Campina Grande - PB

Abstract

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) was created in 2007 with the objective of boosting the country's economic development, with the implementation of infrastructure. A modality of this program called Urbanization of Precarious Settlements (UAP) expanded the volume of resources invested and the scale of interventions in slums and was an opportunity to address social, urban-environmental and land tenure dimensions in an integrated manner. The city of Campina Grande - PB investments PAC Phase I (2007) and PAC Phase II (2011) investments for the urbanization and land regularization of precarious settlements, comprising the following projects: Araxá Railroad, Invasion of Novo Horizonte, Community de Bodocongó - São Januário 1 and 2 and the Ramadinha channel, an invasion of Macaíba, Pelourinho and the Mechanics District in the Southwest Region. The last two have not yet been completed. It is of interest to this study to verify whether the Municipality has institutional capacities to carry out urban regularization actions for precarious settlements, assuming that the municipal administration of Campina Grande did not constitute normative and institutional apparatus capable of guiding and executing the process of urbanization of slums. In the municipality. Based on preliminary studies of this work, it has been possible to verify that the institutional arrangements for the management of urbanization in precarious settlements have been discontinued over time and have not allowed the accumulation of institutional capacities. The general objective of the research will be to evaluate the normative and administrative conditions for the urbanization of slums in Campina Grande-PB, considering the interventions under the PAC-UAP. The research is located within the scope of critical urban theory, considering the unequal capitalist urbanization, the approach is qualitative, based on critical analyzes of the normative and institutional conditions. This is an exploratory-descriptive research that will support critical analyzes of the processes of implementation of interventions for the urbanization of precarious settlements in Campina Grande. The methodological procedures will be: a bibliographic review and a documental research, based on a survey in the Municipality of Campina Grande, data surveys and official information from municipal, feder. Semi-structured interviews will be carried out with technicians from the aforementioned institutions and with residents of the areas under intervention; in addition to processes of direct observation of the intervention areas, with visits and photographic records, as well as the elaboration of cartograms. The research is justified because it corroborates the approach of studies on precarious settlements, as well as highlighting the local trajectory of the slum upgrading policy