All rights reservedGrossi, Grasiele2024-10-092024-10-092016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2077Proceedings 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 southThe city of Rio de Janeiro has been going through a deep process of urban restructuring driven by sporting mega-events - the 2014 World Cup, when the city was one of the venues for the matches, and the Olympic Games, which are going to take place in 2016. This modernization project coincides with the inclusion of new policies for order and public safety, aiming to make a better organized, safer and less violent city. Based on such premises, the state program named Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora - UPP (Police Pacification Unit), has been implemented in certain favelas (slums) throughout the city, aiming at fighting drug trafficking commanders and "recapturing" those territories. At the same time, the Secretaria Especial de Ordem Pública – SEOP (Special Secretariat of Public Order), a municipal agency operating in public areas, seeks to regain "public authority" in order to strengthen urban order, fight petty crime and recover territories overrun by "illegality”. In this sense, the present study aims to address these order policies in terms of their relation to the ongoing urbanization projects, indicating them as key players in the consolidation thereof. We intend to demonstrate how the reconfiguration of the city's image, which is currently linked, not only to the beauty of its landscape and its social diversity, but also strongly linked in the collective imagination with regards to violence, disorder and illegality, becomes a key element in the success of such events. At the same time, such reconfiguration meets the interests of those actors engaged in a new city project, by turning Rio de Janeiro into a beautiful, modern and peaceful city.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject991-993