Resumo:
One of the existing goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to increase
inclusive and sustainable urbanization. Achieving this goal is already considered a challenge,
since in Brazil many cities have already gone through, and still go through, a process
of expansion and urbanization. In this context, the concept of urban planning emerges,
understood as one of the ways to systematize this process, since it allows a better allocation
of financial and human resources, in addition to defining actions and objectives in favor
of solving collective problems. For this, urban policy instruments are defined, closely
related to urban planning, since urban policy instruments are the tools and mechanisms
used to implement planning and achieve the goals established for the city. The objective
of the research presented in this master’s thesis is to investigate solutions that support
decision-making in the context of urban planning. For this, data collected in projects
for the elaboration and updating of urban policy instruments were analyzed so that
these data could be used in the elaboration of a solution. The methodology used was the
Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), the artifact proposed and developed was
a decision support system in the form of a visualization panel of information about the
spatial composition of a municipality in the interior of Minas Gerais . For this, concepts of
geographic data analysis and information visualization were used. The panel was evaluated
by a group of potential users and the hypothesis that the use of data generated by urban
policy instruments can help municipal urban planning was corroborated by the responses
obtained. With the study, it was possible to highlight the importance of the data considered,
the potential of the proposed artifact, in addition to identifying opportunities for future
work.
