Vectors in contradiction: urban mobility planning, land use and the dynamics of contemporary capitalism

Abstract

The article analyzes the relations among urban planning activities in Brazil - especially urban mobility and land use - that are pressured by the dynamics of post-Fordist capitalism, representing an accumulation model to which governmental planning tends to adapt, although in a permanent process of clashes and contradictions. In view of the National Urban Mobility Policy and the Metropolis Statute, and in light of urban sprawl processes on a regional scale, we aim to understand perspectives and guidelines so that urban and metropolitan mobility planning, the object of both Urban Mobility Municipal Plans and Integrated Urban Development Plans, overcomes sectoral approaches to transportation that disregard the capital dynamics in the urban space.