Urban rehabilitation downtown Belém-Pará: concepts and trends of emerging urban policies

Authors

  • Saint-Clair Cordeiro da Trindade Junior Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA
  • Marcio Douglas Brito Amaral Universidade Federal do Amapá

Keywords:

Planning, Urban management, Downtown, Urban policies, Belém

Abstract

The present article discusses urban planningand management concepts and practices in Belém, in the State of Pará
Brazil. The discussion is based on the analysis of two urban interventions recently carried out in downtown Belém. Such
interventions were based on planning and management strategy concepts and provided new landscapes and image to the
city. They brought about urban renovation centered on nature, culture and memory as symbolic ways of legitimating urban
management concepts

Author Biographies

Saint-Clair Cordeiro da Trindade Junior, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA

Geógrafo, doutor em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo - USP

Marcio Douglas Brito Amaral, Universidade Federal do Amapá

Geógrafo, mestre em Planejamento do Desenvolvimento, doutorando em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo - USP

Published

2011-06-06

How to Cite

Trindade Junior, S.-C. C. da, & Amaral, M. D. B. (2011). Urban rehabilitation downtown Belém-Pará: concepts and trends of emerging urban policies. Revista Paranaense De Desenvolvimento - RPD, (111), 73–103. Retrieved from https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/62