Cidade acessível para as pessoas com deficiências

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to recognize the City Master Plan1 as the essential instrument of Brazilian urban development and sprawl policy to assure the accessibility in cities. The methodology adopted involved the adequate utilization of library research developed and Brazilian Code of Laws. Based on the results of this research, we concluded that the Brazilian reality does not guarantee, mainly to the person with disabilities, the right to the accessibility to urban environment. Although, implicit mentioned in many constitutional papers and clearly expressed in Federal Constitution, we still find several physical barriers in many Brazilian cities that prevent these people enjoy the fundamental right to move around their public spaces on equal terms with others. Considering the accessibility to urban environment as well as in buildings, public transport alternatives and in their mutual interactions a constitution obligation, according to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as a fundamental right, especially, for the person with disabilities; thus is necessary that federal entities, mainly, the municipalities assuring this obligation. According to the reasons stated above, it justified the inclusion of accessibility, expressly, in the City Master Plan what will assure, especially to those people, the effective enjoyment of fundamental right to move and have full access to the urban environment