Territorial planning: challenges for capacity building and transformative praxis in Brazil
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2016
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The objective of the article is to analyze how processes of productive-economic and political restructuring and broader societal transformations generate a series of challenges and opportunities for building up the necessary human capacity as well as the transformative professional practice (praxis) that are required for urban and regional planning in Brazil. Countries of the global south in general, and Brazil in particular, have faced intense social-spatial contradictions in their development trajectories that have compromised their territories at multiple scales. Therefore, the urban-regional planning agenda in those countries represents an even higher level of complexity than in the global center. Territorial planning in the global south cannot be separated from issues such as inequality, informality, the scale and proliferation of precarious settlements and the clientelism and patronage that mark the relationships between private actors and the State.
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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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