Unlocking urban land values: comparing large-scale projects in Colombia and Brazil
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2016
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Planning systems became instrumental to unlock land values and unleash the potentials for spatial fix. Indeed, there has been a great deal of attention to the impacts that state reform have been having on cities throughout the world. This paper exposes a crucial element of this process by exploring the contemporary experiences of land use planning in Colombia and Brazil. In specific, we compare the major instruments that promote great urban projects in the two countries and how they have been causing intense changes not only in urban space, but also in their planning institutional architecture. We argue that despite their different justifications and functioning, these new instruments end up producing similar results.
Great urban projects have become an important part of social and economic redevelopment of cities. They act upon a fragment of the urban territory, but that because of the conjunction of different strategies may have an impact in the city as a whole. This complexity means also the need for a specific management system that includes the diverse and diverging social actors that get the direct and indirect impacts of these projects. Finally, the importance of great urban projects derives from the context in which they were created, i.e. adapting cities to neoliberal globalization and more flexible instruments of planning in contrast to the previous modernist-keynesian framework. Hence, the urban transformations in Latin American cities required responding to the different yet intersecting challenges of democratization, decentralization, and globalization.
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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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