Anápolis: a refuncionalização da cidade média e o papel dos planos diretores

Abstract

This research seeks to explore the process of re-functioning of a medium-sized city, the centrality of its urban network, by the lens of the city's director plans, and to understand the role of these policies for the transformations of the territory. The re-functioning is the result of intentionalities, and power disputes between actors who legitimize their actions through public policies. Therefore, exploring this process from the point of view of plans starts from the central idea of their role in directing, inducing or modifying the uses of the territory. Thus, this study deals with the historical narrative from the formation of the city up to the present day in parallel with the history told by the director plans evidencing the paths through the re-functioning of Anápolis. Thus, it is possible to observe the economic transformations of the city, from commercial exploitation and small services of local production flow to the specialization of the industrial sector and services related to logistic transportation at a regional level. The director plans to play a fundamental role in leading this re-functionalization, also it is directly related to the context, especially in times of local/national crisis, mainly with the objective of keeping the city as an attractive investment and centrality in its urban network.