Commoning the Brazilian metropolis: beyond the urban reform impasse?
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2016
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Brazilian urban planning is living a current impasse: while the urban reform movement, born in the wake of the redemocratization process, was somehow successful since the 80s in bringing fundamental changes towards a more participative and progressive approach to urban policy – which resulted, among other achievements at different levels, in the passing of the federal City Statute law in 2001 –, the last decades have been witness to a conservative backlash grounded in a complex marriage between patrimonialism, neoliberalism and neodevelopmentalism. What seems to be a paradox – that the more progressive years of the Worker’s Party government at the federal level were also the days of a general turn in local governments towards more conservative urban agendas – may be less paradoxical than at first sight, especially if we dare to interrogate why some themes dear to the urban question, such as the tackle of landed property effects over spatial justice, were left aside in favor of pro-growth and market-oriented policies.
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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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