O espaço periurbano em Cuiabá (MT) : contribuição para o planejamento e ordenamento territorial

Abstract

In Cuiabá (MT), the implementation of road infrastructures and administrative reorganization of the municipal territory in addition to the imminent revision of the Master Plan and the urban perimeter, has propitiated the demand for urban expansion towards the rural area. These factors give rise to the public power and population the discussion about the expansion of the urban perimeter of Cuiabá to cover the areas between the current urban perimeter and the “Rodoanel”, a by-pass road, one of these infrastructure works, in a portion of the territory corresponding to the "Urban Area" of the District of Sucuri. In this report, we present the initial considerations regarding the concept that characterize the rural-urban transition areas, of which the concept of peri-urban space stands out. The analysis is focused on the actions that affect the periurban area of Cuiabá, from relevant aspects of the juridical-urbanistic reading for the land use and occupation planning and the discussion about the creation of new districts and the delimitations of the urban-rural space, which show that the Municipality must overcome the dichotomy present in the definitions for tax purposes and consider it necessarily as a territorial planning issue for the planning of the periurban space. Thus, throughout the work, the present and current conditions of the urban planning of Cuiabá are presented, in order to discussing, in the light of geography, urban planning and urban law, where relevant, the competences of the municipal administration for the planning of the periurban space, in an enlarged and interdisciplinary view. Also presented are the concepts of the terms space production and land use planning, to constitute the theoretical basis that allows analyzing the elements of the current territorial structure of Cuiabá. It briefly discusses the process of urbanization in Cuiabá, which resulted in the form of dispersed occupation, a model that is repeated by including areas of the Sucuri District as urban, being these contiguous to the current urban perimeter. Of particular note are the territorial planning instruments used by the municipal public authority, such as the macro zoning, the districting and the definition of the urban areas of the districts and the urban perimeter. The rescue of the process of administrative reorganization of the districts and changes in the laws that defined the urban perimeter comes against the debate regarding the maneuvers used by the agents who promoted the urban space in an attempt to expand urban/amenable to urbanization areas without incurring the legal requirements for expansion of the urban perimeter of the city. To composse subsidies for the analysis, the “Região Administrativa Oeste” and urban área of Sucuri District are characterized, about the occupation of the urban fabric and application os urban, legal and tax instruments, as a conterpoint to the need for expansion and criticismo of the proposed zoning. This master’s thesis has the role of presenting, in addition to the debate, a record of past and ongoing planning actions in Cuiabá.