The aim was to reflect on people's participation in the review process of the Master Plan of the city of Camboriu, Santa Catarina. The analysis takes into account the lived experience of students and faculty from the Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Vale do Itajai (UNIVALI) during the course of the extension project and philanthropy titled "Advice to Public Managers in the Plan Review Process Director Territorial Development of Camboriu / SC", in the years 2011 and 2012. The techniques used for the development of that advice were literature, documentary (with primary and secondary data) and field with intensive direct observation. The construction of a participatory democracy in the city of Camboriu is characterized by a process of popular participation and deliberative representative. It is understood that only through training popular action that should be pursued in partnership with the university, there may be full participation of citizens in search of an emancipatory participatory democracy.
Popular participation; Master plan; Urban planning; Participatory democracy