Venturosa Campina: propostas e reformas urbanas em Campina Grande-PB. 1970-1976

Abstract

This work discusses urban and architectural projects, especially proposals for the central area, which were part of the Integrated Local Development Plan of Campina Grande – “PDLI”, developed during the 1970s in the context of the institutionalization of urban planning in Brazil through the Federal Housing and Urban Planning Service – “SERFHAU”. Adopting procedures of literature review and documentary analysis, the work is structured in four parts. In the first, it shows a historical perspective of the urban planning experiences from the 20th century in the city of Campina Grande until the time of the PDLI. In the second, it discusses the ideas that guided urban planning in Brazil in the context of its institutionalization since the 1960s. In the third part, analyses the conception of the Plan through the Campina Grande Development Company – “COMDECA”. In the fourth part, it highlights the implications of urban and architectural proposals contained in the Plan, focusing on the relation between projects in the central area and the urban configuration of the territories where they were inserted.