Planejamento e a sustentabilidade urbano ambiental: o caso da comunidade Vila Feliz/PB

Abstract

This paper aims to attest if the Vila Feliz Community, located in the city of Cabedelo, belonging to the Metropolitan Region of João Pessoa (RMJP), has guaranteed the social right to housing and the right to a balanced environment. The need to understand the interrelation between fundamental rights as a premise of the dignity of the human person was emphasized. It has been defended that lowering social and economic inequalities and the guarantee of social rights are needed in the search for the right to sustainable city. The Right to the city is based on sustainable development, which is the balance between economic growth, a balanced environment, and social justice. Urban growth and socio-spatial inequality in Brazilian cities were examined, making it a necessary institution of urban and housing policies aimed at urban environmental sustainability. Based on the analysis of urban policies instituted and applied in Brazil and the studied Region, we sought to observe the positive and negative points, owing to the need to check law gaps in the existing laws in the city of Cabedelo and João Pessoa. It was verified that given the visualization of the land as a commodity, with use-value and, mainly, exchange value, effective democratic management, as well as the provision and implementation of legal instruments aimed at fulfilling the social function of property. It is essential, that is, popular partaking in the urban planning process, to reduce the inequality in the participation of different social classes, both in the drawing up and in the fulfilment of urban laws, understanding that the management of an effective, balanced and fair space presupposes democratic conduct and interaction through popular participation as an instrument of urban policy.