Vivências, percepções e representações na cidade de Valença-Bahia, como subsídio para a construção de um PDDU participativo

Abstract

In this dissertation, the role of social agents in the production and reproduction of space is addressed, consequently in the construction of urban planning policies, such as the Master Plan, having as object of study the city of Valença - Bahia. The objective of the research was to analyze the popular participation in the construction of planning policies and to identify the perceptions and representations of the residents and how they can contribute to the change of the social reality. The study has as a spatial cutout, Macrozone 2 of the city of Valença - Bahia, and a temporal cutout from the beginning of the elaboration process of the Master Plan of Valença, in 1999, until 2021. In the research process, we tried to find out how the construction of this PDDU took place, with a view to popular participation in its elaboration, and to present a methodology proposal, not as something ready and finished, but as an instructive basis to serve as an example for future participatory policies. The theoretical-conceptual discussion is centered on the concept of geographic space in a historical-dialectical materialism perspective and also starts from a phenomenological inspiration, having the place as a lived space. Throughout the work, these concepts were developed at different times, first presenting the contradictions in space and then moving on to a more subjective context. The experiences, perceptions and representations were analyzed from the interviewed population, bringing to the fore, desires, particularities and pluralities that characterize the city under study. The results obtained show that: there was no effective popular participation in the elaboration of the Master Plan; the interviewees' perceptions about the city of Valença are of desire for change; and the proposed methodology can be used in the Social Mobilization Plan.