A (des)construção do espaço carioca na ‘era Cesar Maia’ (1993-2008): reflexões sobre o modelo de planejamento urbano estratégico e o conjunto de objetos arquitetônicos denominado ‘Pentágono do Milênio’

Abstract

This PhD thesis proposes to itself to an examination in theory and practice of (de)construction of carioca space in ‘Cesar Maia Era’ (1993-2008), from the analysis of local changes from the effects of changing the paradigm model of rational and functional planning for the model of strategic planning of cities in the built environment of Rio de Janeiro and the assumption on which the architecture and urban planning are used as the main tools of globalization to the production process of spaces attractive to investors and citizen-consumers, characterized by the emergence of new architectural and urban typologies allegedly overall. The research, beginning in the model of incomplete pass rational-functionalist planning, which sought to ensure order and efficiency through zoning, for the model of strategic planning of cities, imported from Barcelona, in the early 1990s, as the new paradigm of urban development and ‘translated’ in recent years by architects, planners and leaders in the context of the city, seeking investigate possible changes in public policies that supported and organized the ‘action systems’ model of strategic planning Rio, and practices that materialize the ‘systems of objects’ of the city during the administrations Cesar Maia (1993-1996), Luiz Paulo Conde (1997-2000), Cesar Maia (2001-2004) and Cesar Maia (2005-2008 ), with emphasis on the construction of meaning and the web of meanings of some significant ways open to interpretation and semiosis. Specifically examined is the set of architectural objects called ‘Pentagon of the Millennium’: the Center of Luiz Gonzaga Northeastern Traditions, in São Cristóvão, the City of Samba, in Gamboa, the City of Music, in Barra da Tijuca, the Guggenheim Museum, at Pier Mauá, and João Havelange Olympic Stadium, in the Engenho de Dentro, in order to verify the structural innovations occurred and suggest that these renewed modes of management and production of standardized areas of consumption to attract investment and tourists, strengthen old centralities and create new centralities, indicate objectives and benefits of different strategies proclaimed by the municipality and on human development and the enlargement of the democratic base of the city through participation of all the rationalization of public action and that, despite some open spaces of Rio de Janeiro the urban upgrading, as necessary to produce an image of the city competitive, such actions are not guaranteed inclusion in the Rio de Janeiro ‘international tour operators’, and also be inserted in these channels does not mean well success of a strategic plan in the long term should be defined a ‘city project’ that seeks the full development.