Subsídios para o desenvolvimento municipal: o caso de Barra do Piraí - RJ

Abstract

This study had as objective to investigate the several forms of urban management, and generate subsides to the elaboration of a planning for the development of Barra do Piraí. It was prepared an analysis in the evolution of the town from 2000 up to 2005, and investigated documents, plans, public administration files and elaboration of a external inquiry about the local dynamics. The supposition is that the development of Barra do Piraí may be aimed with a public politics based in participative planning, implementing actions that may bring new industries (firms), generates new work points and promotes the funds distribution, having as consequence the social inclusion and the improvement of the inhabitants quality of life. The conclusion was that despites Barra do Piraí has passed for a period of great empting caused by the changing of the modal railroad for highways, the construction of Presidente Dutra Highway and the construction of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional in Volta Redonda, the city may respond with a participatory management, wich respects its natural vocation and dedicated to social inclusion. Nowadays the city is attracting new firms and developing its touristic potentials and reconnect the federal and state leaders to start the reversal of framework of stagnation in which it was.