O conceito de cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis a partir da análise do plano diretor estratégico de 2014 da cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

Nowadays, the international scenario requires competitiveness, efficiency, faster processes and sustainability. The Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) arises in this paradigm, which these cities use technological devices in order to foster the sustainable urban development and the quality of life of the citizen. The Master Plans (MP) are urban tools which induce a desirable and idealized urban development from the public administration and government. In Brazil, the Statute of the City and the Constitution idealized that the urban policies should achieve the social function of the city and of the property. São Paulo is the biggest brazilian city and has many cultural, social and land use diversity. Our purpose is to understand how the current MP of São Paulo has been related with the SSC concept. The method used is qualitative, documental, with literature review, exploratory approach and content analysis. Our findings suggest that the current MP of São Paulo has a content whose unfolds the three urban smartness dimensions of the SSC (innovative smartness, smart governance, and inductive smartness), the three sustainability dimensions (social, economic and environmental), and on the urban resilience and equitative development fostering. Also, our research contributes with identifying: the “Triple Bottom Line of the Urban Smartness of the Smart Cities”; the “Triple Bottom Line of the Urban Smartness of the Smart Sustainable Cities”; and the urban sustainability trends, which are the “Smart Sustainable Cities”, the “Urban Resilience” and the “Equitative Development”. And we provided research implications and suggestions for the next review of the MP of São Paulo.