Participatory master plan, territory and floods in Rio do Sul/State of Santa Catarina

Abstract

The study was carried out with the objective of crossing information about urban planning and natural disaster management, having as object the municipality of Rio do Sul, State of Santa Catarina. Using GIS, vector layers of floods that occurred in the city were interpolated with the zoning of the Participatory Master Plan. With territory as the theoretical framework, we discussed the power relations involved and their effects on the local urban morphology. Our aim was to provide an academic contribution to the technical and critical analyses of urban planning and management that were conducted after the approval of the City Statute, necessary for cases of other Brazilian cities. We concluded that the technicians responsible for the master plan did not consider floods in the process of composition of this instrument, influencing the spatial agents’ action and reinforcing the segregation processes that already occurred.