A participação popular no processo de revisão do plano diretor de Palmas-TO: um ensaio à luz da teoria da ação comunicativa em Habermas

Abstract

This article aimed to verify the real effectiveness of citizen participation during the process of drafting Complementary Law Nº 400, of April 2, 2018, which instituted the new urban plan for the city of Palmas-TO. The problem had been analyzed from the perspective of the Theory of Communicative Action in Habermas, based on the dialectical method. The research considerations hover over the urban plan supported by the law and doctrinal material, followed by an analysis of the relation between the democratic principle of citizen participation and the concept of communicative action. Finally, conclusions were made in the sense that it is not possible to affirm, at least from the perspective of communicative action, that there was effective citizen participation in the plan's revision process due to the set of controversies and devices that made it impossible to read the process under the Habermasian interpretative optics.