All Rights ReservedLeal de Oliveira, Fabricio2025-02-052025-02-052016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2565Proceedings 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 southCompetitiveness, insertion in the global economy and promotion of the city image are the expressions that better define the guidelines of urban policy of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Since the early 1990s, all mayors follow this political and ideological direction and build together a long period of close relationship between government and business for defining urban priorities and policies that shall last at least until the end of 2016, when Mayor Eduardo Paes current term is over. Hosting mega events, which promise to promote the city, attract investments and transform the urban scenario, is one of the expressions of this type of public administration. The main effects of these mega-events in Rio de Janeiro are the changes in the municipal transport system (the official "legacy" of the games and the World Cup), the concentration of public investment in the city richest areas, the privatization of public and common lands and goods, the violent removal of tens of thousands of people living in popular settlements and the intensification, on an unprecedented scale, of the process of expulsion of the poor to peripheral areas without jobs or services and, therefore, the increase of inequality in the city. Other authors (Oliveira, 2015; Vainer, 2011) will also point out that the institutional field have been appropriated to create exceptions aimed at specific actors and to grant powers and interests also very specific.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject527-530