Characterization of Spatial Planning in Brazil: The Right to the City in Theory and Practice

Rocco, Roberto; Royer, Luciana de Oliveira; Gonçalves, Fábio Mariz

doi:10.1080/02697459.2019.1636552

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“…Adherence to a model of patrimonial and exclusionary patterns of urban development in Brazil has resulted in a hollowing out of the participatory arena, such that councils, conferences, and participatory budgeting practices are in place, but as weak and empty spaces, without significant influence in defining urban policies (ibid.). Rocco et al (2019) find that, despite steps toward citizen engagement and inclusion in planning processes, urban planning since the adoption of the City Statute remains largely technocratic. Although city master plans contain instruments to promote the social function of property, these laws are often unenforced (Santos Junior & Montandon 2011).…”

Section: Limitations Of the City Statutementioning

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Fine‐Tuning the “Right to Rio de Janeiro” from Above and Below: The City Statute in Pre‐Olympics Rio de Janeiro

Svoboda

2021

City & Society

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Brazil's City Statute enshrines the "right to the city" and the "social function of property" in its constitution. Brazilian scholars, however, identify barriers to achieving the law's agenda. Broader debates regarding the right to the city suggest the concept has been overextended beyond meaning, and that formalization of the right to the city betrays its radical Lefebvrian roots. This article is based on fieldwork conducted in Rio de Janeiro when widespread forced evictions were being carried out prior to the city's hosting of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Based on observations within eleven housing occupations, and sixty interviews with participants, leaders of social movement organizations, and local politicians, the article argues that the "constitutionalization" of the right to the city and the social function of property formed the basis for the politicization of dispossessed urban residents. The social function of property was a particularly salient concept for capturing the injustice of the planned relocation of the displaced poor to the urban periphery, while countless buildings sat underutilized in the city center.

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Section: Limitations Of the City Statutementioning

confidence: 96%

Fine‐Tuning the “Right to Rio de Janeiro” from Above and Below: The City Statute in Pre‐Olympics Rio de Janeiro

Svoboda

2021

City & Society

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“…As mentioned earlier, regulation and planning of urban development in Brazil (Rocco et al, 2019: 422) has long struggled to promote inclusiveness and prevent segregation. As a result, through territorial growth and building replacement, urban transformation in Brazil continuously produces a highly fragmented urban fabric and built environment that reinforces and reflects a high level of inequality and segregation.…”

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Understanding and predicting the occurrence of void street interfaces

Filho

Sulis

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Void street interfaces (VSIs) – building plinths with restricted visual interaction, accessibility, and public use – constitute an urban feature often associated with undermining the public domain, limiting free access and preventing interaction between social groups. Moreover, VSIs have been described as products of inequality designed to segregate and hinder integration between public and private urban spaces. This study assesses VSIs across six cities in Brazil, a country notable for its profound inequality and sociospatial fragmentation. The main aims of this research are: (i) to develop and test a predictive model for VSIs using socioeconomic indicators drawn from open-source ground-truth data; (ii) to identify the variance of VSI within selected case studies. In the development phase of the predictive model, data from the city of Recife are used to build the model. The testing phase involves the analysis of VSIs in the cities of Fortaleza, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Porto Alegre. The model can potentially assist urban planners in better understanding and locating VSIs and mitigating undesirable outcomes.

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“…As in most of the cities from the so-called Global South 3 , inequality and poverty have historically been shaping the urban development in Rio de Janeiro (Alves et al, 2008;Leitão, 2008;Rocco et al, 2019). In general terms, the state plays an important role in reproducing and aggravating these inequalities, either by its negligence or through intentional actions and policies that instead of tackling the major urban problems of the impoverished communities, aim to favor powerful private sectors (Maricato, 2017).…”

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Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation: The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation

Canêdo¹,

Andrade²

2021

RHJ

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This paper aims to discuss the processes of resistance and transformation that take place in squats in Brazil and thus shed a light on potential innovative forms of producing and inhabiting the city that emerge from the articulation between inhabitants, social movements, university, activists, and public sectors in these spaces. This work is anchored in the case of a squat in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, which provides empirical data and engages it in dialogue with the right to the city. The paper proposes to analyze the experience of squatting in Brazil through three different dimensions of potential tactics for transformation: political, urban, and social. It draws from the authors’ years of active engagement with the squat and the accumulated research and teaching experience in the field of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro. The paper aims to demonstrate that squats can be both seen and used as tactics for transformation which can lead to alternative forms of inhabiting the city that arise from insurgent and collaborative practices.

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Characterization of Spatial Planning in Brazil: The Right to the City in Theory and Practice

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Fine‐Tuning the “Right to Rio de Janeiro” from Above and Below: The City Statute in Pre‐Olympics Rio de Janeiro

Fine‐Tuning the “Right to Rio de Janeiro” from Above and Below: The City Statute in Pre‐Olympics Rio de Janeiro

Understanding and predicting the occurrence of void street interfaces

Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation: The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation

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