Analysis of urban development plans using the sustainable urban accessibility paradigm and mobility planning

Abstract

The act of urban space planning requires integrative and multidisciplinary approaches, given its collective aspects and the involvement of actors with varied interests. The difficulty to integrating planning efforts emerges as a central issue, associated with either adopting guiding principles, identifying problems or even setting consensual goals. This way, in the scientific interpretation of the planning object (the urban space), development plans stand as important instruments to guide local-development policies. As a historical product, linked to the human values of time and space, it serves as a paradigmatic indicator of planning itself, revealing the ideologically delimited evolutionary stages of planning. The present work analyzes selected development plans of the city of Fortaleza, according to the paradigm of sustainable urban accessibility and mobility planning (PAMUS), which considers three correlated urban subsystems as central to the planning analysis: activities, land use and transport. For this purpose, the programmatic contents of four selected master plans were qualitatively assessed, in accordance to the ALUTI conceptual model. The outcomes showed that plans hardly evolved in terms of systemic integration. The role of accessibility and mobility in these plans is unclear, with reflexes restricted to transport, with a focus on infrastructure provision.

Keywords:
Planning; Accessibility; Mobility; Sustainability; Master plan