The Public Power, the Civil Society and the Urban Planning: the possible and impossible interactions in the definition of trends in the territorial organization metropolitans

Abstract

This article argues some trends of the organization of the space in the metropolises contemporaries. It has an evident exaggeration between what is considered, planned and executed for the public power and the final result. This result is the synthesis of multiple determination. That is, in the space the contradictions between the objectives, the proposals and the actions of the different agents if materialize in the different forms of use and occupation. We intend to argue the possibilities of interaction between the civil society and the public power, taking as a project of construction of a renewed democracy perspective, following the way traced for Henri Léfebvre in “The Right to the City”. That is about a democracy in the urban world has taken in account the popular participation in the proposal, in the elaboration and the execution of the action plans, in intention to reorganize the urban space through shared relations of authority.