Development as we know it? Change and continuity in the production of urban and regional space in Brazil

Klink, Jeroen; Keivani, Ramin

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“…Pimentel Walker (2015) explains how center-right politicians were politically forced to envision a strategy of participatory planning to incorporate the outcomes of municipal socialism through popular participation characteristic of participatory budgeting. Indeed, the combination between vested interests in real estate and land markets and supported by interdependencies between global finance, the building and construction industry, and an open and liberalized Brazilian capital market produces complex challenges to make effective gains with the Statute of the City (Klink & Keivani, 2013). Given the role of politics and the framework of the relational fabric of the state and state permeability, in the next part I examine the case of Niterói.…”

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The contradictions of participatory planning: Reflections on the role of politics in urban development in Niterói, Brazil

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Journal of Urban Affairs

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Despite the broad celebration of Brazil's urban reform movement, recent events in Brazil have called attention to a paradox focused on the disappointing results of this movement to deal with Brazil's complex urban context. Taking this "impasse" as a starting point, this article focuses on the role of politics and its relationship to economic interests in urban development in which much decision making around urban policy takes place to understand why Brazil's progressive legislation has not succeeded in creating a more just and equitable urban environment. Using a case study of the city of Niterói, I show that patterns of state and nonstate actors are connected through both formal and informal relationships, and connections between public and private actors have a considerable impact on urban politics and policies. Focusing on the limits of participatory processes in Niterói, I call attention to the contradictions of participatory planning in Brazil.

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The contradictions of participatory planning: Reflections on the role of politics in urban development in Niterói, Brazil

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On financialization and state spatial fixes in Brazil. A geographical and historical interpretation of the housing program My House My Life

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‘Post‐Third‐World City' or Neoliberal ‘City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era

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2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article considers processes of urban development within the context of mega‐event preparations in Rio de Janeiro. We begin with a brief overview of these development processes, highlighting their connections to political and economic change in recent years. Proponents of these mega‐event‐led initiatives argue that Rio is undergoing a period of inclusive growth and integration: a perspective we call here a ‘post‐Third‐World city' narrative of urban renewal. Critics, however, contend that urban officials are harnessing mega‐events (e.g. the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games) to push forward a neoliberal agenda of socially unjust policies benefiting the interests of capital and marginalizing the city's poor and especially its favelas (i.e. the ‘city‐of‐exception' thesis). In this article we explore the insights of these two perspectives and consider why they have grown popular in recent years. Though we side generally with the city‐of‐exception thesis, we argue that important geographic and historical particularities must also be accounted for. Without carefully situating analytical perspectives empirically—in particular, cases in which theoretical models are drawn from European and North American contexts—urban researchers risk concealing more than they reveal in analyses of rapidly developing countries like Brazil.

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Development as we know it? Change and continuity in the production of urban and regional space in Brazil

Cited by 3 publications

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The contradictions of participatory planning: Reflections on the role of politics in urban development in Niterói, Brazil

The contradictions of participatory planning: Reflections on the role of politics in urban development in Niterói, Brazil

On financialization and state spatial fixes in Brazil. A geographical and historical interpretation of the housing program My House My Life

‘Post‐Third‐World City' or Neoliberal ‘City of Exception'? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era

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