As teorias do novo urbanismo no contexto urbano brasileiro: conflitos e convergências a partir de uma abordagem local : o caso de Pelotas – RS

Abstract

The New Urbanism (NU) movement was structured in the 1990s, however, Brazil does not have a significant number of urbanizations that follow this concept. However, in Pelotas, a city in Rio Grande do Sul with just over 340,000 inhabitants, two allotments used this model in the development of their urbanizations: the Quartier and Parque Una projects. Considering that the documental base that relates the movement to the Brazilian reality is rare, this work was proposed to identify and analyse, with reference to the city of Pelotas, the result of the materialization of New Urbanism in the national urban context. The work also shows that some interpretations given to the movement's recommendations are ambiguous and somehow contradictory. In addition, it warns that this model can give rise to “islands of innovation”, resulting in an increase in social distance between the spaces created and their surroundings. Thus, the present work - carried out in Master's course at Architecture and Urbanism at Prograu/UPFel - contributes to the study of future urbanizations, which may be proposed in Brazil, based on these principles.