The pratical speech to discursive practice: urban mobility and its sociopolitical context. Contradictions and gaps between the development and implementation planning of transport policies in Brazilian cities — the case of the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR)

Abstract

In just over six decades, the debate around the ideas that add to the concept of the same urban mobility not directly associated with the term, have acquired a very great complexity and at the same time contradictory, given the multiplicity of variables that it passes to interfere, making it the subject of a discussion that goes beyond the theoretical field. Currently, the angle of discussion of the topic directs to two aspects inherent to such ideas: I) that concerning the relevance that is intrinsic to the urban space which, in turn, is characterized as a field of discussion conducive in fostering the concept ; and II) one relative to the amplitude that is related to the historical bias from the moment in which the term gain focus; the economic bias in relation to domestic production of the country; environmental bias mainly from major world conferences on the environment; the social bias in the inclusive care and essential to the population; and finally a political bias, regarding decision making. Thus, generally the work seeks to question the ways of urban planning focused on transport in recent decades. Specifically the article takes focus on the contradictions and gaps between urban mobility and public policies, that is, it does not seem so clear, its process of preparation and implementation, to the extent that such policies do not fulfill effectively its paper, this fact brings a very high cost to essential public services, such as in the case of transport. Search it will investigate this issue using as a case study the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR), through a comparative approach between theoretical discourse and practice evident in the various modal shifts.