The urban revitalization plan for the central area of Campo Grande, MS

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the proposals of the current Revitalization Plan for the central area of ​​the city of Campo Grande in Mato Grosso do Sul, to make critical inferences about it, verifying the extent to which it contemplates the human dimension in improving the quality of life for its citizens. It was also analyzed how the process of public participation in its implementation developed. To achieve this objective, the study has a qualitative approach, using documentary research as a methodological basis. Thus, the study sought to expose elements to contribute to the reflection of the indispensability of collaborative creation, active participation, and democratic urban management of public spaces, considering the human dimension in a local development process of an inclusive nature. The study allowed us to verify that, although the strategies for the requalification of the site of the Revitalization Plan for the central area cover different dimensions of the urban system and address important points treated in urbanism in the human dimension in their strategies, the greater emphasis is on the economic front than on its social front. It was also found that public participation in the decision-making processes of the Plan is still unsatisfactory since it is still governed by neoliberal principles and results more in a consultation process imposed vertically than an active dialogue.