All Rights ReservedMaricato, ErminiaAngotti, TomTeixeira, PauloBoulos, GuilhermeSenra, KelsonMaricato, Ermínia2025-02-132025-02-132016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2691Proceedings 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 southAt the time the new Brazilian constitution was being enacted (1987), after the end of the military dictatorship, social movements came together to form the National Forum for Urban Reform (FNRU), with the purpose of providing a common platform for their fragmentary claims, including public participation in land use decisions and planning policies as well as a newly defined right to the city. This Constitution was vague when addressing the enforcement of the social function of property, and enforcement was postponed until a specific law was passed to regulate it: the City Statute (Federal Law n.10.257/2002), which was enacted 13 years after the 1988 Constitution. In turn, the City Statute displaced the enforcement of its mechanisms onto master plans, in compliance with the Constitution. Most of the master plans drafted after 2001 resulted in vague and general texts that deferred the enforcement of the City Statute’s mechanisms to municipal laws.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject80-82