Master Plan Comparison: Seattle (EUA) and Porto Alegre (BRA)
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This document summarizes and compares the international planning approaches of Seattle, WA and Porto Alegre, Brazil. For Seattle, it outlines the goals of protecting the environment, connecting people and places, maintaining a strong economy, and including socially and economically affected groups in decision making. For Porto Alegre, the goals include democratic management with public participation, improving life quality, integrating public and private actions, and protecting the environment. Both cities aim to involve the public, though Porto Alegre provides less accessible language and Seattle takes a more marketing approach. The key lesson is the importance of environmental sustainability and public participation in planning.
Master Plan Comparison: Seattle (EUA) and Porto Alegre (BRA)
- 1. ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL PLANNING APPROACHES GROUP 06: ABEL ESCOVEDO DANIEL PASSOS LUCAS SILVA ANGÉLICAVIDAL RICARDO SHOJI SEATTLE AND PORTO ALEGRE
- 2. SEATTLE • City Council’s PLUS (Planning, Land-use and Sustainability) • Department of Planning & Development • Comprehensive Plan: US Washington State Growth Management Act; – Vision 2040; – Contywide Planning Policies.
- 3. SEATTLE VISION: – To protect and improve the quality of the local and global environment; – To maintain and enhance conditions necessary for a healthy natural environment; – To design, build and manage the city’s built environment in ways that protect and strive to restore over time natural resources and natural systems; – To act as a role model for individuals, house-holds, businesses, and other institutions in environmentally sustainable practices; – To help all citizens to become environmental stewards; – To improve the overall quality of life in Seattle.
- 4. SEATTLE GOALS: – To develop strong connections between a diverse range of people and places, – To protect and improve the quality of the local and global environment, – To develop and maintain a strong economy, – To include the most social-economical affected in the decision making process.
- 5. SEATTLE MAIN FUNCTIONS: –Zoning Mainly to help ensure the provision of affordable housing. –Projects The plan has several section describing the approach in each aspect: Land use, Housing, Economic, Environmental, Human Development… –Budget We couldn’t find the information.
- 6. SEATTLE PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS: – There’s plenty of ways to send questions and suggestions through the website, and also there seems to have enough information regarding what the Comprehensive Plan states for.
- 7. PORTO ALEGRE • Secretaria de Planejamento Municipal (Department of City Planning) • PDDUA - Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Urbano Ambiental (2010) – Upgrade of the 1st PDDU from 1999.
- 8. PORTO ALEGRE VISION: • There isn’t any explicit vision on the master plan file.
- 9. PORTO ALEGRE • GOALS: – Democratic management with the population participation; – Ensuring better life and environment quality by diminishing the inequalities and social exclusion; – To integrate public and private actions; – To reinforce the public regulation regarding land use; – To promote an horizontal integration between the city’s administrative councils. – To protect, maintain and preserve the environment; – To preserve and protect the historical buildings and monuments; – To recover public investments that had lead to an increase of the urban properties.
- 10. PORTO ALEGRE MAIN FUNCTIONS: –Zoning Were made according to the peculiarities to be stimulated in the area. –Projects We couldn’t find the information. –Budget It talks about the Orçamento Participativo (Participatory Budget) but doesn’t present details.
- 11. PORTO ALEGRE PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS: • Porto Alegre has a well structured website providing the necessary information regarding the most recent master plan, FAQ, legislation, news, where’s the money been spent, etc. • There is a short and simple guide of how the population could participate in the decision- making process through meetings in all the 8 regions of planning management. • Each region is represented by a counsellor.
- 12. SEATTLE x PORTO ALEGRE similarities • Friendly and easy to use website; • Concerned with integrating population;
- 13. SEATTLE x PORTO ALEGRE differences • Porto Alegre has less accessible language in the document; • Seattle has a more advertising approach;
- 14. KEY LESSONS 1) There is a great concern for the future of the environment; 2) The documents are quite complete and broad; 3) To bring the population to the decision making process appears as an essential factor.