Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Port City design'

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This urban design thesis is a study of the urban issues and design principles pertinent to Port Cities. 'Man meets water': Our primordial psyche Man has had a relationship with water since time immemorial. Moving freely from earth to water is an activity which comes naturally to the human being. According to Eastern philosophy, Earth is the most important element. It comprises matter in a solid state, represents stability, physicality and gravity. Water is the second most significant element and represents fluidity, flexibility and adaptability (Ninjutsu.co.uk). Man meets water, in other words, is the moving from one realm to the other. In urban design terms, where 'Man meets water' is the 'in between' space - the interface. This is the area where two worlds come together - an area of interaction, interconnectedness and interrelationship. The area of study is a precinct of Port Louis - the interface between land and sea, as shown in Figure 1.1. The original urban quality of Port Louis has become degraded as a result of post-independence modernisation. The interface has been reshaped spatially and functionally. The original city of Port Louis was founded on the harbour, which was central to social, commercial and residential life. Today, the harbour is segregated from the city fabric. This thesis aims to explore the nature and design principles of places and spaces that lie within this land-water interface in order to formulate an urban design proposal wherein the land is reconnected to the water - an urban intervention for a people-oriented port city.

Il presente lavoro di tesi tratta delle soluzioni abitative d’emergenza che si possono utilizzare in casi eccezionali ed imprevedibili conseguenti a catastrofi naturali come terremoti, incendi o inondazioni o a fenomeni sociali come,l’ondata migratoria che ha visto migliaia di richiedenti asilo fuggire dalle zone di guerra. Questo studio parte dalla considerazione dei lavori fotografici di Luigi Ghirri, Giovanni Chiaramonte e Adrian Paci e soprattutto della loro interazione con le situazioni d’emergenza sopracitate. Successivamente la tesi si focalizza sugli alloggi temporanei come risposta immediata al problema della mancanza di una abitazione nelle situazioni d’emergenza. La costruzione di alloggi temporanei aiuta gli sfollati a tornare alla vita normale. Viene dunque affrontato lo studio di alcuni precedenti e delle problematiche che si riscontrano nella progettazione di tali alloggi. La tesi si propone di individuare un'unità abitativa capace di offrire un’adeguata qualità della vita, anche temporanea, a coloro che stanno vivendo l'emergenza. In primo luogo viene redatta una lista di criteri universali, fondamentali per la progettazione di una dimora in grado di rispondere alle variazioni del contesto ambientale, al fine di affrontare diverse tipologie costruttive, la questione della sostenibilità e dell'adeguatezza culturale; in secondo luogo, si propone un progetto contestualizzato che ha lo scopo di aiutare la comprensione del funzionamento dell'unità e delle sue esigenze. Tale modello ipotetico trova contesto nella città di Porto, sfruttando il suo gran numero di aree dismesse e gli innumerevoli vuoti urbani qui presenti, al fine di evitare un ulteriore consumo di suolo. Questo progetto vuole proporre un esempio di risposta di fronte a eventuali situazioni d’emergenza nella città di Porto e non solo, essendo pensato appositamente per potersi adattare anche ad altre realtà, con contesti culturali e territoriali differenti.

Os cidadãos estão enfrentando um processo de transição por um futuro mais sustentável e com uma preocupação maior nas pessoas. Respondendo aos desafios locais, a inovação social surge como uma maneira de grupos de pessoas buscarem soluções para os seus problemas cotidianos baseados em relações colaborativas e compartilhadas. Neste contexto, o movimento conhecido como Zona de Inovação Sustentável de Porto Alegre (ZISPOA), configura-se como uma iniciativa com o propósito de transformar uma área delimitada em um modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável e inovador, incluindo a cooperação como processo para consolidação de uma cidade onde as relações humanas sejam valorizadas e as questões urbanas solucionadas de maneira mais inteligente. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a experiência da ZISPOA, observar e registrar o processo de construção do movimento de modo a contribuir na construção de modelos de implantação de projetos colaborativos para cidades. Para alcançá-lo foi realizada uma extensa pesquisa bibliográfica para identificar teorias relacionadas a processos colaboratvios, redes, inovação social, além de descrever os conceitos relacionados a cidades para as pessoas e identidade local Com o domínio da teoria iniciou-se o desenvolvimento do estudo de caso único associado à observação participante. A pesquisa ocorreu dentro de um contexto no mundo real, com isso foi possível acompanhar o desenvolvimento da ZISPOA ao observar seus projetos e ações. Realizou-se uma pesquisa documental, relatórios de acompanhamento da observação participante e no andamento da pesquisa, sentiu-se a necessidade de realizar entrevistas com visionários, pioneiros e seguidores do início do movimento. Como resultado obteve-se o registro do desenvolvimento dos projetos e atividades ZISPOA desde o seu início e um entendimento em profundidade de como acontecem os mesmos e sua rede de relações, além de compreender como a ação do designer pode fortalecer esse tipo de iniciativa. Esse estudo ajudou a construir, documentar e sustentar o movimento que é baseado em projetos que visam desenvolver, de forma colaborativa, uma cidade mais inovadora e sustentável em que as pessoas se identifiquem com a mesma e se empoderem como embaixadores e apoiadores da identidade local.
Citizens are facing a process of transition towards a more sustainable future with a greater concern in people. Responding to local challenges, social innovation emerges as a way for groups of people to search solutions to their everyday problems based on collaborative and shared relationships. In this context, the movement known as the Sustainable Innovation Zone of Porto Alegre (ZISPOA) is configured as an initiative with the aim of transforming an area that is delimited into a sustainable and innovative development model, including cooperation as a process to consolidate a city where human relations are valued and urban issues solved more intelligently. This research had as objective to analyze the experience of ZISPOA, observe and register the process of construction of the movement in order to contribute to the construction of models for the implementation of collaborative projects for cities. To achieve this, an extensive bibliographical research was carried out to identify theories related to cooperative processes, networks, social innovation, and to describe the concepts related to cities for people and place branding With the domain of theory, the development of the single case study associated with participant observation began. The research took place within a real world context, with this it was possible to follow the development of ZISPOA when observing its projects and actions. Documentary research, follow-up reports on participant observation were made, and the progress of the research was felt the need of interviews with visionaries, pioneers and followers of the movement. As a result, the development of ZISPOA projects and activities has been recorded since its inception, and an in-depth understanding of how they happen and their network of relationships, as well as understanding how the designer’s action can strengthen this type of initiative. This study helped build, document, and sustain the movement that is based on projects that are designed to collaboratively develop a more sustainable innovation city in which people identify with it and empower themselves as ambassadors and supporters of local identity.

Durante il periodo di tirocinio svolto presso l’area “Gestione del territorio” del Comune di Grottammare (AP), è emersa l’opportunità “ Smarter Italy”, un programma strategico che offre a comuni e borghi italiani la possibilità di partecipare ad appalti innovativi che hanno quattro aree d’intervento: smart mobili¬ty, beni culturali, benessere delle perso¬ne e salvaguardia ambientale. Si tiene presente che non esistono tecnologie che innovano senza un utente culturalmente pronto, come non esiste un modello o un format di Smart City applicabile ad ogni città del mondo. Può esistere però un metodo di applicazione di queste tecnologie, costruito con gli strumenti del Service Design, che può fare in modo che il servizio sia cucito su misura per il contesto. GrotteGo è il servizio per la mobilità nella Città di Grottammare che si pone di affrontare il problema del sovraffollamento veicolare durante la stagione estiva, di rendere la mobilità cittadina più sostenibile e di rendere più accessibili le soluzioni per la mobilità ed i suoi spazi.

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Among the many urban consequences caused by the process of global economic restructuring, there is the emergence of large idle areas in cities and urban sectors whose growth had once been supported by the manufacturing industry. These are called areas of demand for industrial conversion or positive restructuring. The territory of the Fourth District of Porto Alegre, the object of the research study, is inserted in this context and problem set, offering many opportunities for new urban projects as a tool for territorial regeneration of degraded or transforming land. The urbanization process, which is currently characterized by the ability to put parts of the city in motion, has the challenge of dealing with existing city, without denying it. Similarly, society enters the twenty-first century with a strong concern for environmental preservation and recycling of resources, demanding the transformation and recovery of environments, such as industrial ones, through sustainable development. Thus, the paper focuses on aspects of the factors present in the origin of these places, their impacts on the land, the possibilities within the productive restructuring and urban regeneration of traditionally industrial areas, their new formats in the contemporary city - amongst them, the urban clusters, new fields of architecture and urban design facing society and the contemporary cities, sustainable development and condensing the city through the (re) densification of such territories, and finally focuses on the analysis and diagnosis of the context and potential of the IV District. The paper seeks to illustrate the theoretical discussion with relevant project experience.
Entre as inúmeras conseqüências urbanas provocadas pelo processo de reestruturação econômica global, destaca-se o surgimento de grandes áreas ociosas nas cidades e setores urbanos cujo crescimento havia se amparado na indústria de transformação. São as chamadas áreas de demanda por reconversão industrial ou reestruturação produtiva. É nesse contexto que está inserido o território do IV Distrito de Porto Alegre, objeto de estudo da pesquisa, e, nessa problemática, encontram-se muitas das oportunidades oferecidas aos novos projetos urbanos, enquanto instrumentos de regeneração territorial de áreas produtivas deterioradas ou em transformação - o processo urbanístico, que atualmente caracteriza-se pela capacidade de colocar trechos da cidade em movimento, tem o desafio de enfrentar a cidade existente, sem negá-la. Paralelamente, a sociedade adentra o século XXI com a forte preocupação da preservação ambiental e da reciclagem dos recursos disponíveis, fazendo com que a transformação e a recuperação de ambientes, como os industriais, coloquem-se dentro dessa nova demanda através do desenvolvimento sustentável. Sendo assim, o trabalho aborda aspectos acerca dos fatores presentes na origem desses lugares, de seus impactos no território, das possibilidades existentes na reestruturação produtiva e na regeneração urbana de zonas tradicionalmente industriais, de seus novos formatos na cidade contemporânea - entre eles, os clusters urbanos, dos novos campos de ação da arquitetura e do projeto urbano frente à sociedade e às cidades contemporâneas, do desenvolvimento sustentado e da promoção da cidade compacta através da (re)densificação desses territórios, e por fim, concentra-se na análise e no diagnóstico do contexto e das potencialidades do IV Distrito, sempre buscando ilustrar a discussão teórica com experiências projetuais relevantes que colaborem com o esclarecimento das questões encontradas na região em estudo e que inspirem alternativas para sua reversão.

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Na dimensão do design estratégico, o exercício de metaprojetar a construção de uma Cidade Ciclável pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento das cidades que apresentam um contexto frágil, se interpretada pela lógica da inovação social que gera valor. Neste sentido, compreende-se contexto frágil como um espaço onde há uma malha cicloviária que foi adaptada às faixas de circulação de carros e pedestres, sendo inserida de forma forçada e impositiva no espaço urbano. Desta forma, percebe-se a ausência parcial ou total de condições para que a mobilidade urbana por bicicleta obtenha êxito. Assim, estabeleceu-se como objetivo geral elaborar projetos de cenários para um contexto frágil de mobilidade ciclável. A pesquisa apresenta a noção de urbanidade e cultura urbana, conceitua territórios e cidades criativas, e as relacionam com a ideia de sentido e fluxo de pessoas. O design estratégico, com seus pilares e processos, aprofunda o exercício metaprojetual para inovação social, utilizando-se do processo de projeto por cenários para que esse venha a servir como campo fértil para as práticas e estratégias que impactam na construção de uma Cidade Ciclável. As escolhas metodológicas exploram a ideia de ciclo dos movimentos durante o percurso de pesquisa. O primeiro movimento caracteriza-se pela saída de campo. O segundo foca num workshop para projetar cenários. Por fim, estabelece-se a relação entre os resultados coletados no campo aos cenários projetados durante o workshop, e se ensaia uma proposta de um cenário que reúna os pontos relevantes destes processos de construção de uma Cidade Ciclável à luz do design.
In Strategic Design, the exercise of using metadesign in order to project a Cyclable City can contribute towards the development of those cities whose transportation infrastructure is less than ideal, if this exercise is viewed through the lens of value-generating social innovation. In this particular context, a ‘less than ideal transportation infrastructure’ means an urban space in which there is a cycling network which has been adapted to the existing automobile and pedestrian traffic infrastructure, in a manner that is unnatural and/or imposing, causing the possibilities of success of any urban cycling strategies to range from very scarce to completely absent. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to envisage imaginary scenarios for a city whose transportation infrastructure is of the aforementioned type. The research includes the notions of urbanity and urban culture, it explains the concepts of territories and of creative cities and connects these ideas with those of direction and flow of people. By means of its pillars and its processes, Strategic Design delves deep into the exercise of applying metadesign for social innovation. It utilizes the method of project by scenarios so that the process can become a fertile ground for practices and strategies which could shape the building of a Cyclable City. Methodologically, this research is divided into three distinct phases. The first stage comprises a field study. The second part focuses on a workshop with the aim of projecting scenarios. On the third and last stage, a connection is established between the data collected in the field and the scenarios projected during the workshop. Finally, the author proposes a scenario which combines the most relevant points raised by means of these different methods and processes for the creation of a Cyclable City.

The built environment in the old city of Homs has been brutally destroyed by the conflict in Syria. The research gap in post-conflict planning and architectural design in the old city of Homs is alarming as it indicates that there are no clear roadmaps on how to deal with post-conflict housing units in such a historic area. This study aims to investigate the possible design basis of housing typologies and plans for the housing units in the old city after the conflict. This study is primarily based on a literature review and extensive discussions with a specialist architect from the city of Homs, who helped to gain a deeper understanding of how to approach such a topic. The literature review deals with the historical Arab cities’ components and the elements of courtyard houses both in general and in the old city of Homs in particular. Likewise, it looks at the city’s urban plans and building code and their shortcomings and highlights the current conditions there. It also highlights proposed strategies for post-conflict construction and discusses them. The findings of the study propose a design ideology for reconstruction strategies and translate these ideologies and findings from the literature into a practical design of typologies placed on a proposed plot of land in the old city, along with a proposal of what the plans of these houses might look like.

This dissertation resituates C. A. Doxiadis in Post-War urban design history with a detailed examination of how urban growth and change was addressed by urban design strategies as applied in the master plan for Riyadh Saudi Arabia, undertaken between 1968 and 1972. The Riyadh master plan commission is important within Doxiadis' career, occurring in the midst of his prolific writing projects and approximately eight years after he completed the Islamabad master plan, his most renowned project. Most Post-War architects focused on the socio-spatial components of urban life, elaborating architectural projects that intertwined transportation, infrastructure, and concentrated on mass housing strategies. This dissertation argues that Doxiadis' contribution to urban design theory and practice during the Post-War period was to define a rational scientific methodology for urban design that would restructure settlements to enable urban expansion and change while addressing issues of community building, governance and processes of development. The applied urban design for Riyadh Saudi Arabia strongly exemplifies Doxiadis' rational strategy and methodology as outlined in Ekistics theory and the conceptual model of Dynapolis. The comparative analysis examines how Doxiadis applies the Dynapolis model in the urban spatial planning of Riyadh to organize urban territory at the macro and local urban scales, define neighborhood communities, and connect the new master plan to the existing spatial territory of the city. The longitudinal analysis contrasts the Doxiadis master plan, Riyadh's first urban development strategy, to the most recent comprehensive approach MEDSTAR to understand how the Doxaidis' urban design has sustained its spatial continuity over time. This dissertation makes two significant contributions. The first is to broaden knowledge of Post-War urban design specific to the spatial problem of urban expansion and change, and second to resituate Doxiadis within the Post-War history of urban design specifically revealing his previously unrecognized project of the Riyadh master plan undertaken from 1968-1972.

Espaces publics ? Quel projet – de ville et de société - sous-tend les aménagements ? Quelles sont les visions des aménageurs ? Quelles sont les normes et les valeurs qu’ils défendent à travers leurs projets ? Que représente pour eux l’espace public ? Quelle définition en donnent-ils ?Ces questions trouvent une résonnance particulière à Dresde et à Chemnitz : elles sont ces dernières années toutes deux l’objet d’un programme de création et de transformation de leurs espaces publics centraux. Ces deux terrains ne sont pas intéressants pour l’étude de l’imaginaire planificateur qu’en raison de l’importance du programme mené (pas moins de six nouveaux espaces chacune) mais aussi en raison de l’histoire particulière des deux villes. Dresde et Chemnitz ont vu leur centre-ville presque entièrement détruit sous les bombardements alliés en 1945 et seulement partiellement reconstruit sous la RDA selon des principes urbanistiques tout à fait nouveaux. Le choix auquel les planificateurs sont confrontés depuis la chute du régime socialiste et la Réunification est celui du modèle à suivre pour finir de reconstruire le centre-ville toujours inachevé. L’absence quasi-totale de patrimoine à conserver ne rend pas nécessaire le travail de négociation avec les conservateurs du patrimoine, habituellement au cœur de tous les projets contemporains en Europe. Dresde et Chemnitz présentent donc des cas d’étude particulièrement passionnants car les acteurs de la planification jouissent d’une très grande liberté d’action qui leur permet de mettre en œuvre sans entrave juridique leur conception actuelle de l’aménagement des espaces publics. Il serait donc possible ici mieux qu’ailleurs de lire l’imaginaire planificateur contemporain
Which are the representations that guide the planning actors along their public spaces conception? Which project, -of city, of society- underlies the urban planning? Which are the visions of the planners? Which norms, which values do they want to defend through their project? What is for them the meaning of public space? What is their own definition?These questions are finding a particular echo in Dresden and Chemnitz: these two cities have been the subject for a few years of a creation and transformation program of their central public spaces. These two fields are interesting for the study of the planner’s imagination not only due to the importance of the program led (not less than six new public spaces in each city) but also due to specific history of both cities. The center of Dresden and Chemnitz has been almost completely destroyed by the allied bombardments in 1945 and it has been only partially rebuilt under the GDR according to completely new urbanistic principles. Since the fall of the Socialist Regime and the Reunification, the question of the planners is which model is to be followed to achieve the reconstruction of the still unfinished city center.The almost complete lack of architectural heritage to protect does not make it necessary to negotiate with the architectural heritage officers who are in Europe at the heart of all contemporary projects. In that respect, Dresden and Chemnitz are particularly entrancing, because the planning actors enjoy a very large liberty to implement without any legal obstruction their conception of the urban planning. It would be possible here than better anywhere else to read the contemporary planning imagination

In recent decades, the role of port cities has changed dramatically. In many cases, the port function has been removed from the urban waterfront altogether. For this practicum, the subject is not the post-industrial, but rather an investigation into the role of landscape architecture in a place where industry persists on the shoreline. Halifax, Nova Scotia is the principle location for this exploration wherein the existing port-city interface is re-evaluated. This study includes an examination of the course of worldwide port development and the resulting impacts on port-city interrelationships and a historical comparison of the Port of Halifax to the general evolution. Mapping is the core of the analysis and is the primary means of assessing current conditions and future considerations. The work concludes with a final design proposal. Design drawings demonstrate the conceivability of the working port environment as a place to reconnect citizens with their harbour and the activities that occur within.

The thesis deals with the interpretation of the Mediterranean port city landscapes in the occurring transformation process due to the pressing questions of the Global Age, which more than any other age seems to saturate the coast in the envelope of its f lows. Mediterranean port cities in the spaces of their ports and in those boundary areas between port and city are perceived nowadays as remote, ugly and conflict areas. A landscape approach to the design of the ports, which at the time of the start of this research was mostly absent, is an increasingly felt and urgent issue at an international level, which therefore needs to be explored and deepened to provide tangible answers according to the principles of the ELC. It investigates the landscape design chance to create a new system of relations that solves the current fracture City- Port - Sea, not only in a disposal scenario, but even at the very moment of port’s full activity. On the one hand, it examines the identitarian characters of those port cities that established with the Mediterranean a relationship of permanent inspiration for their role, while on the other hand it analyse which they have been the same factors when the 20th-century urban model crashed and replaced this relationship. The study of the phenomenology of the network of public spaces connecting port and city is a key to interpret the system of relationships which constitutes the identity of these urban landscapes. From this reading, we acquire the cognitive and design tools to carry out the inverse operation that sees in the action on the sensitive network of public spaces in contact with the areas of the new ports, the trigger point of the new system of relationships, producing new forms to inhabit these landscapes. The thesis experiments a new approach to the interpretation, definition and monitoring landscape quality that is expressed in the method employing the landscape quality objectives as landscape indicators and triggering tools for the design process. By proposing a set of Landscape Quality Objectives for the Mediterranean Global Port Cities, the thesis provides to landscape design a synthetic, transcalar and constructive tool to trigger sustainable transformation process, opening the way to define sustainable design strategies for each single context.

Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.
A localização dos países à beira-mar fez com que as pessoas planejassem cidades ao longo das margens. Situado no "nariz" da Península Ibérica, Sines tornou-se uma das mais importantes cidades portuárias já existentes indústria da região que foi estabelecida há muito tempo atrás. Está costa natural com uma das mais belas praias de Portugal pode traga muitas pessoas aqui. O trabalho atual é sobre tornar este litoral atração acessível para todos e fundindo a parte habitada de a praia do Norte com a cidade. Ultimamente a reabilitação de uma área urbana, convertendo ruas sem sombras para os bulevares verdes se tornaram necessárias. Tecnologias dia-a-dia sobre o plantio de hortaliças melhoram permitindo engenheiros para fornecer mais eficiência no período limitado de tempo. A proposta é sobre a reabilitação das ruas que estabelecer uma conexão de pedestres e ciclistas entre a cidade e a praia do Norte revelando o farol do Cabo de Sines também como a sua reconstrução, dada a sua importância arquitectónica e estética para o outro lado da cidade. A proposta é escrita com base em Donald Conceito de Judd sobre Hortus Conculus. Restauração do antigo caminho e trazendo a memória e símbolo para os cidadãos é um personagem principal do trabalho.
ABSTRACT: The location of the seaside countries made people plan cities along the shores. Situated in the "nose" of Iberian Peninsula, Sines became one of the most important port cities with already existing industry of the region which has been established long time ago. Its natural coast with one of the most beautiful beaches in Portugal can bring a lot of people here. Present work is about making this coastal attraction accessible for everybody and merging the inhabited part of the North beach with the city. Lately the rehabilitation of an urban area, converting empty streets without shadows to the green boulevards became necessary. Day by day technologies about planting of greenery improve, enabling engineers to provide more efficiency in the limited period of time. The proposal is about rehabilitation of the streets which will establish a pedestrian and cycling connection between the city and the North beach revealing the lighthouse of the Cabo de Sines as well as its' reconstruction given its architectural and esthetic significance to the other side of the city. The proposal is written based on Donald Judd’ concept about Hortus Conculus. Restoration of the old path and bringing the memory and symbol to citizens is a main character of the work.
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Il est très commun d’entendre dans les discussions sur l’urbanisme que la participation du public est nécessaire, mais la manière de faire participer reste encore sujette à énormément d’expérimentation et d’incertitudes. Cette étude s’intéresse au design institutionnel des processus de participation en urbanisme, sous l’angle de leurs effets de démocratisation. L’étude cherchera à identifier les aspects déterminants des processus de participation en urbanisme afin d’offrir, à ceux qui les conçoivent, un éclairage sur les implications des choix qu’ils effectuent. L’analyse se construira à partir de l’étude du fonctionnement concret d’une opération de planification concertée à Porto Alegre, dans le secteur Lomba do Pinheiro. Elle s’appuiera sur un découpage des modalités du processus élaboré à partir d’une revue des ouvrages techniques sur la participation en aménagement. Après avoir décrit la culture de la participation et de planification propre à Porto Alegre et comment celle-ci s’est construite, l’analyse décrira, à partir d’observations sur l’évolution du processus et de ses résultats, les effets du processus en termes d’impact sur l’espace bâti, de transformation des relations sociales et de possibilité de faire apparaître des conflits. Les conclusions feront voir l’importance des modalités plus informelles du travail des organisateurs, de même que la nécessité de mettre le projet au centre du processus afin d’établir un terrain commun. Le rôle crucial de la sélection des participants sera souligné. De fortes réserves seront exprimées quant à la pertinence de la transformation des relations sociales comme objectif pour les processus de planification concertée.
It is quite common, when discussing city planning, to call upon the necessity of public participation. However, the means by which the public participates are still mainly left to experimentation and uncertainty. This dissertation questions the institutional design of participation processes in city planning, from the angle of their democratization effects. It will tempt to identify determining aspects of public participation processes in city planning in order to offer, to those who design them, keys to understanding the implications of their choices. The analysis will be based on the study of the day-to-day operations of a collaborative planning process in the Lomba do Pinheiro district of Porto Alegre. It will use a sectioning of process components built from a review of technical books on participation in design Having depicted Porto Alegre’s specific participation and planning culture and how it was constructed, the analysis will, by observing the evolution of the process and its result, describe the process’ effects in terms of impacts on the built environment, on the transformation of social relations, and on the possibility of making conflicts apparent. Conclusions will reveal the significance of informal aspects in the work of facilitators as well as the necessity to put the project at the center of the process in order to establish a common ground. The crucial role placed by the selection of participants will be outlined. Strong doubts will be expressed on the relevance of the transformation of social relation as a goal of collaborative planning.