Abstract
The advance of international practices of urban intervention in Brazilian cities in the last two decades has exacerbated processes of disarticulation on urban planning at the local scale, due to the decline of the State as its main actor, what increases social and territorial inequality, owing to concentration of territorial investments. In this context, guided by the incidence of the strategic urban planning model, the city of Belém, in the state of Pará, stands out for encompassing two megaprojects aimed to the requalification of waterfront spaces: the Estação das Docas, inaugurated in 2000 and, more recently, the Belém Porto Futuro, inaugurated in 2020. Based on the analysis of both projects, this article aims to analyze the transformation in planning and management of these megaprojects, considering the principles of the strategic urban planning, regarding the praxis of submission to international standards of intervention and the dissociation from the local urban demands.
Keywords:
Strategic Urban Planning; Megaprojects; Port Requalification; Territorial Fragmentation; Urban Environmental Inequality