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Implementing the Urban Reform Agenda in Brazil: Possibilities, Challenges, and Lessons

Implementing the Urban Reform Agenda in Brazil: Possibilities, Challenges, and Lessons This paper describes the historical process of urban-legal reform in Brazil since the late 1970s, especially since the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution and the enactment of the 2001 City Statute. It discusses how the new legal order has consolidated the notion of the "right to the city" in the country, meaning the inseparable combination of the principle of the social functions of property and the city, and the principle of democratic management of cities. Special emphasis is given to the actions of the main sociopolitical stakeholders in this process, as well as to the possibilities and constraints of the new legal order. It argues that the promotion of urban reform and inclusive land, housing and urban policies requires an elusive combination of political, institutional and legal change, and that the effective utilisation of the new legal spaces created by the new legal order depends on the constant renewal of sociopolitical mobilisation in the country. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Implementing the Urban Reform Agenda in Brazil: Possibilities, Challenges, and Lessons

Fernandes, Edesio
Urban Forum , Volume 22 (3) – Jun 28, 2011
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2011 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Subject
Social Sciences; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology, general
ISSN
1015-3802
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1874-6330
DOI
10.1007/s12132-011-9124-y
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Abstract

This paper describes the historical process of urban-legal reform in Brazil since the late 1970s, especially since the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution and the enactment of the 2001 City Statute. It discusses how the new legal order has consolidated the notion of the "right to the city" in the country, meaning the inseparable combination of the principle of the social functions of property and the city, and the principle of democratic management of cities. Special emphasis is given to the actions of the main sociopolitical stakeholders in this process, as well as to the possibilities and constraints of the new legal order. It argues that the promotion of urban reform and inclusive land, housing and urban policies requires an elusive combination of political, institutional and legal change, and that the effective utilisation of the new legal spaces created by the new legal order depends on the constant renewal of sociopolitical mobilisation in the country.

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Urban Forum – Springer Journals

Published: Jun 28, 2011

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