Considerations about the Production and Reproduction of the Peripheral Urban Space in Curitiba: a preliminary discourse analysis of the metropolis’ New Zoning Law

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on and to clarify some considerations regarding a few discursive elements through an intersection between Critical Geography and Applied Linguistics. Such discursive elements are in the new and recently approved Zoning Law from the city of Curitiba (2019), State of Paraná, Brazil, which substituted the one published in 2000. In order to do so, it was also considered the production of peripheral urban space aiming to establish a critical analysis which intends to comprehend the meanings of this discourse and its materialization. For this purpose, Critical Discourse Analysis served as basis to the critical reflection about peripheral urban space production, seeking to understand how the urban land use “design” is produced and how it is planned by the State. Therefore, it is understood that, with the help of researchers who discuss the production and reproduction of the urban space, the urban matter, the planning, the discourse of power, and language – inserted within the document of land use –, such document follows the same logic of space structuration that postulates the collective, however without considering it regarding discourse materiality, because it is an ideological discourse.