ANALYSIS OF

INTERNATIONAL PLANNING APPROACHES

GROUP 06:

ABEL ESCOVEDODANIEL PASSOSLUCAS SILVAANGÉLICA VIDALRICARDO SHOJI

SEATTLE AND PORTO ALEGRE

SEATTLE

• City Council’s PLUS (Planning, Land-use and Sustainability)

• Department of Planning & Development

• Comprehensive Plan: US Washington State Growth Management Act;

– Vision 2040;

– Contywide Planning Policies.

SEATTLEVISION:

– To protect and improve the quality of the local andglobal environment;

– To maintain and enhance conditions necessary for ahealthy natural environment;

– To design, build and manage the city’s builtenvironment in ways that protect and strive torestore over time natural resources and naturalsystems;

– To act as a role model for individuals, house-holds,businesses, and other institutions inenvironmentally sustainable practices;

– To help all citizens to become environmentalstewards;

– To improve the overall quality of life in Seattle.

SEATTLEGOALS:

– To develop strong connections between adiverse range of people and places,

– To protect and improve the quality of thelocal and global environment,

– To develop and maintain a strong economy,

– To include the most social-economicalaffected in the decision making process.

SEATTLEMAIN FUNCTIONS:

– Zoning Mainly to help ensure the provision of affordable housing.

–Projects The plan has several section describing the approach in each aspect: Land use, Housing, Economic, Environmental, Human Development…

–Budget We couldn’t find the information.

SEATTLEPARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS:

– There’s plenty of ways to send questions andsuggestions through the website, and alsothere seems to have enough informationregarding what the Comprehensive Plan statesfor.

PORTO ALEGRE

• Secretaria de Planejamento Municipal

(Department of City Planning)

• PDDUA - Plano Diretor de DesenvolvimentoUrbano Ambiental (2010)

– Upgrade of the 1st PDDU from 1999.

PORTO ALEGRE

VISION:

• There isn’t any explicit vision on the master plan file.

PORTO ALEGRE• GOALS:

– Democratic management with the populationparticipation;

– Ensuring better life and environment quality bydiminishing the inequalities and social exclusion;

– To integrate public and private actions;– To reinforce the public regulation regarding land

use;– To promote an horizontal integration between the

city’s administrative councils.– To protect, maintain and preserve the environment;– To preserve and protect the historical buildings and

monuments;– To recover public investments that had lead to an

increase of the urban properties.

PORTO ALEGRE

MAIN FUNCTIONS:

– Zoning Were made according to the peculiarities to be stimulated in the area.

–Projects We couldn’t find the information.

–Budget It talks about the OrçamentoParticipativo (Participatory Budget) but doesn’t present details.

PORTO ALEGRE

PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS:• Porto Alegre has a well structured website

providing the necessary information regarding themost recent master plan, FAQ, legislation, news,where’s the money been spent, etc.

• There is a short and simple guide of how thepopulation could participate in the decision-making process through meetings in all the 8regions of planning management.

• Each region is represented by a counsellor.

SEATTLE x PORTO ALEGREsimilarities

• Friendly and easy to use website;

• Concerned with integrating population;

SEATTLE x PORTO ALEGREdifferences

• Porto Alegre has less accessible language in the document;

• Seattle has a more advertising approach;

KEY LESSONS

1) There is a great concern for the future of the environment;

2) The documents are quite complete and broad;

3) To bring the population to the decision making process appears as an essential factor.