Since its beginning, the Brazilian urbanization process has been the scene of class disputes. These are materialized in the territory, from the processes of socio-spatial segregation, resulting from the marginalization and inaccessibility to decent housing (MARICATO, 1995). In the Urban Green Area called Machado, an area of environmental preservation around the Machado Stream, in Palmas-TO, there are precarious settlements that emerged from this dynamic. The goal of this work was to characterize this occupied environmental area and to elaborate a diagnosis to propose urban intervention guidelines and proposals, for land regularization purposes. In the process of characterization and diagnosis of the area, four aspects were considered (land, environmental, urban and social). The analysis of these resulted in guidelines and proposals for intervention, which were arranged in two masterplans, one generic covering the whole area and another more detailed corresponding to the allotment of Machado Oeste farms, chosen according to characteristics pointed out in the paper. In the end, the conclusion is that despite the environmental fragility and steep slope in certain points, there are places that can be occupied, where it is possible to guarantee the permanency of the local population with urban improvements when reconciling urbanization with the existing environmental constraints.
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