Abstract
Brazilian municipalities with less than twenty thousand inhabitants began to be considered by urban policy with the approval of the City Statute (Federal Law No. 10,257/2001), which made it mandatory to elaborate master plans for a range of these municipalities in specific cases. However, the federal law comes mainly from the problems and demands of large cities, not considering the specificities of municipalities with small populations. Thus, this work seeks to analyze the relevance of post-City Statute master plans for municipalities with less than twenty thousand inhabitants, as well as the adequacy of the City Statute to these municipalities with regard to the Master Plan instrument. As methodological procedures, bibliographic and documentary researchs and case studies of six Brazilian municipalities in the five macro-regions of the country were used. It was concluded that the master plans contributed to initiating or reinforcing policies to regulate land use and occupation in municipalities with less than twenty thousand inhabitants, mainly in their urban areas. However, the analyzes point to the need for adjustments and additions to the federal legal system for the Master Plan be more effective as an instrument for disciplining the land use and occupation in municipalities with small populations.
Keywords:
City Statute; Municipal Master Plan; Territorial planning and management; Small towns; Small populated municipalities
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