SEGREGAÇÃO SÓCIOESPACIAL COMO CONSEQUÊNCIA DOS DIVERSOS PLANEJAMENTOS URBANOS REALIZADOS NO PASSADO

This paper analyzes the socio-spatial segregation process that has been taking place worldwide. As this process has grown mainly from the industrial revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period where the industry had great jump and industrialization was triggered by every continent.This proliferation of industries worldwide was reinforced by the discovery of oil and electricity. From the nineteenth and early twentieth century urban segregation century has become a problem that is affecting indirectly and directly the health of the population more strongly in cities and more recently also in smaller cities. Therefore every decade becomes greater the need for urban planning.Currently the existence of the Urban Master Plan is required not only in the cities of developed countries, but mainly in the cities of the countries where the economy is dependent on the decisions of the central countries. Today the Municipal Urban Master Plans are considered responsible for the solution of urban problems. But it appears that many of Municipal Master Plans exist in countries considered dependents (as the case of Brazil) have deepened the problem of socio-spatial segregation rather than diminish this problem.In this sense we made a parallel study, between two cities: An existing in Brazil - Aracaju and other existing in Portugal - Braga to show that after more than thirteen years of existence of the Urban Plans of Directors in these cities the urban segregation process has been controlled and even decreased in the Portuguese city. On the other hand, in Brazilian Aracaju, their urban problems has increased.Finally we demonstrated in the case study in the cities where urban plans Directors have not made a serious and democratic manner, with public participation, have increased urban problems. The last thirteen years these socio-spatial segregation problems has had a considerable increase. This has interfered and even more strongly negatively induced health of low-income population living in the areas (neighborhoods, districts) where urban infrastructure is very poor.