Security of land tenure revised: the case of CRRU in Recife and Porto Alegre, Brazil

Souza, Flavio de

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“…Group title prioritises collective over individual concerns and will "control transfers and discourage speculation" (Payne, 2002, p. 21). 5 The key is to protect residents -against "down-raiders" but also against themselves, by preventing transfers deemed to be against community interests (de Souza, 2004).…”

Section: Commodification and Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Varley

2016

Planning Theory & Practice

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An extensive literature opposes the provision of property titles for the residents of informal settlements. One concern is that titling leads to commodification and the market-driven displacement of the original inhabitants. Another is that it propagates the ideology of private ownership, undermines collective solidarity and demobilises social movements. This article, based on observations from Mexico City and Guadalajara, finds little evidence of displacement but highlights the importance of location. It supports the view that formalisation undermines resistance, but argues that titling does so by meeting rather than creating the desire of the urban poor for private property and homeownership.

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Section: Commodification and Displacementmentioning

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Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Varley

2016

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…In the 1980s, what were illegally occupied urban areas were targeted for state provisions of social services and the legalization of tenure aimed at protecting these areas from real estate speculation. In Recife, this was carried out through a pioneering Plan for the Regularization of Special Zones of Social Interest or PREZEIS (Plano de Regularização das Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social), a collaborative effort of the municipality and various social movements (Assies, 1992; FASE et al ., 1997; de Souza, 2001; 2004). Although the legalization of irregularly occupied areas has been very slow, slum clearance and upgrading in Recife has been a relentless process, in parallel with the construction of substitute housing estates for the poor.…”

Section: Recife City Of Slums and Upgradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil: Neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist aesthetics in slum upgrading in Recife

Nuijten

Koster

Vries

2012

Singap J Trop Geogr

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This paper shows how regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil are produced by the entangling of neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist visions. The paper focuses on Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in Recife funded by the World Bank, which commenced in 2007. In this project, the neoliberal dimension manifests in the idea that the state, private companies and citizens together are responsible for (re)constructing urban space, and further, that beneficiaries should behave as autonomous citizens, taking responsibility for their new living environment. The leftist political dimension is seen in participatory procedures to involve the target population from project design through to implementation, in expectation of their cooperation with the government. The modernist aesthetics – of straight lines, open spaces and visible order – informs the project design with the requirement to use the new houses and public spaces according to the standards of ‘modern civilization’. As our research shows, such a regime of spatial ordering clashes with the livelihoods of the urban poor, whose quality of life might even deteriorate as a result of the intervention. Furthermore, so‐called participatory procedures fail to grant the target population any real influence in creating their environment. Consequently, these residents of the new housing estate drastically reconstruct their private and public areas, reappropriating the urban space and contesting the regime of spatial ordering imposed upon them.

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“…The city of Recife embraced the ZEIS which were described as “subnormal settlements with a potential for consolidation and whose removal certainly would involve high social and/or financial costs” (preparatory document of Prefeitura/URB 1980 in Assies 1992:148n). Recife has 65 ZEIS (Souza 2004:234). Every ZEIS should have a COMUL, a COMissao de Urbanizacao e Legalização da posse da terra (Comission for Urbanization and Legalization of land titling), to guide the land regularization process.…”

Section: The Background To Slum Upgrading In Brazil and Recifementioning

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From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations: The Shaping of a Slum Upgrading Project in Recife, Brazil

Koster

Nuijten

2011

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This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead-up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in shaping the project that for a long time did not materialize. We argue that the project manifested itself as a vehicle of modernity that evoked a dream of progress. The population, which never asked for the project, was attracted to this dream, but remained critical. We contend that, although the project partly delivered on its promises, for many slum dwellers it failed to entail a better life. We portray the project's genealogy, the compromise between different aims, and an echelon of post-project frustrations.

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Security of land tenure revised: the case of CRRU in Recife and Porto Alegre, Brazil

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil: Neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist aesthetics in slum upgrading in Recife

From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations: The Shaping of a Slum Upgrading Project in Recife, Brazil

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