MICHAELA ANDRÉA BETTE CAMARA
Abstract:
The right to the city is a guarantee of the community, through which it seeks to create systems that provide citizens with a dignified life, with a focus on the recognition of the collective will, the coexistence between the different and, above all, the confrontation of struggles and conflicts that result in solidarity and urbanity. However, in order to have the effective exercise of this right, it is necessary that public policies for urban planning include two aspects that, in recent years, have gained notoriety in discussions about space, citizenship, city law, namely: urban mobility and accessibility. Moreover, the concept of space is conceived as one of the main study tools of geography as a science. It's in this space, too, that the right to come and go - in different ways - is exercised, which leads us to assume that space is constructed and reproduced unequally and contradictorily, privileging some over others. And it is precisely this contradiction - that the city is for everyone, but not everyone has the right to it - that justifies the interest in researching the issue of urban mobility and accessibility in Jataí, Goiás State, investigating if there is the effective exercise of the right. otherwise, what prevents the fulfillment of legal and constitutional precepts and why the Government does not enforce what is prescribed by Brazilian law, especially when it says that all are equal before the law. This research aims to understand how the process of urban mobility and accessibility takes place on Avenida Goiás, located in Jataí city, Goiás State, in order to verify whether or not there is an effective exercise of the right to the city. Specifically, it aims to investigate the Jataí Urban Master Plan, drawing a parallel with current Brazilian legislation on urban mobility and accessibility; to ascertain the public policies of urban planning in force, especially considering the issues of inclusion, citizenship, mobility and accessibility; to verify if the right to the city is effective or if it is conditioned only to the theory. This is a quantitative and qualitative research, in which data were collected through documents (doctrines, legislation, urban policies), correlated with theoretical studies of the area, interviews with the responsible for the Urban Planning Division of the Municipality of Jataí and with city, besides analysis of Av. Goiás, which is the spatial cut. In this context, the hypothesis raised is that the right to the city is not effectively practiced in the municipality of Jataí, since urban planning does not seem to contemplate the policies of urban mobility and accessibility.
