Porto Velho desde 1914: uma cidade sem planejamento?

Abstract

The city of Porto Velho, capital of Rondonia, is one of the main cities in northern Brazil. His occupation came from the construction of the railway Madeira - Mamore, in the early twentieth century. The temporary occupation was transformed into a city with an urban layout and architecture with American style, inserted in the Amazon presents problems of urban planning that comes from decades of applicatio ns without thoughts urban defended and submitted by various thinkers. This paper discusses the application of thinking about urban developed throughout the twentieth century in Porto Velho, through critical analysis of master plans and a comparison, more g enerally, with the Master Plans of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul . As a final consideration, we arrive at an idea of the master plans of Porto Velho are, for the most part, on paper, they are the first additions of 1972, not a critical analysis of the actual s ituation of the city