From the idea to the practice: evaluation of thirty years of land value capture planning tools implementation in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
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2016
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Urban infrastructure has always represented a great cost to the municipal governments. One of the results of infrastructure implementation is the valuation of real estate adjacent to it, valuation that is generally captured by owners and entrepreneurs by raising rents or sales value of these properties. Since the late 19th century, many cities around the world have implemented land value capture tools as a way to recover government costs, allowing the continuity of infrastructure expansion.
In Brazil, the idea of implementing these instruments dates back from the 1970s with the discussions of creating an urban development fund. The City of São Paulo has been one of the pioneers in some of these planning tools implementation since the 1980s. However, currently there is a critique on the use of such tools, especially regarding to the application of the funds, considering the context of an extremely uneven society such as the Brazilian.
The aim of this work is to evaluate the experience of São Paulo in the implementation of these instruments, trying to understand how the allocation of the raised funds contributed to decrease or increase this unevenness through investments in infrastructure and services with higher social returns, considering mainly the lower income strata.
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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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