Gestão Metropolitana: a região metropolitana da grande São Luís e desafios das políticas urbanas

Abstract

This study had as goal analyzing the metropolization’s process of São Luís and its management to elucidate issues about urban policy and its planning joining counties (São Luís, São José de Ribamar, Paço do Lumiar, Raposa, Alcântara, Bacabeira, Rosário e Santa Rita). It’s used as method the reasoned dialectical (POLITZER, 1986), as it allows a bigger interaction with the subject studied, get away of the positivist objectivism, maths rigour, allowing we to understand the problem so that creating hypotheses and facing the trouble as kind of resources the quality grounded in Gil (2000). As a data collection it was used exploratory procedures like interviews in public organs and documentary analysis of actions that aim the metropolitan area under study, seeking a balance between official discourse and the practice of urban policies. It shows as result, the fact that theoretical advances and methodological as much as the troubles or urban and regional issues have been contributing to the build of a joint analysis about the function of cities and territory, as instrument of planning to the regional development (MENDES, 2009, p. 67). It concludes so that understanding of the metropolitan management becomes possible through the contradictions of the urban. To do so, the RMGSL relating to metropolitan managent needs descant seeking the social development through production of public policies that enable the most poor population to have access to the urban equipaments that really permeates directly by mechanisms of management shared among metropolitan counties.