Diagnosis in slum upgrading projects: considerations through recent Brazilian experiences
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2016
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The word Diagnosis refers us to the field of medicine. By knowing the symptoms, it is possible to identify the disease and determine prognosis and treatment. The use of this term in the field of urbanism implies a certain biologization of the notion of urban analysis, frequently employed by the Chicago School of Sociology (LAMAS, 2007 e VALLADARES, 1998)
Reckoning the slum as a territorial morphology is a recent approach not only in Brazil but also around the world, as the very history of slum interventions demonstrate. During the first slum interventions in Brazil, governments tried to eliminate these territories, treating them as ‘diseases’, rejecting their existence and, therefore, the full comprehension of this phenomenon.
Although nowadays we still witness questionable eliminations of informal housing territories through violent evictions (FERREIRA, 2015), slums are, in most cases, acknowledged as an alternate solution when there is a shortage of accessible housing.
Slum upgrading projects (in Portuguese, Urbanização de Assentamentos Precários – UAP) have been conducted through public programs by progressive city administrations since the 80s and the 90s in Brazil (DENALDI, 2003). Nowadays, there is an unprecedented amount of federal resources allocated to this kind of projects, despite the obstacles faced by the UAP program when trying to achieve more qualified results (MORETTI et al, 2014).
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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