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ResumoEste trabalho trata das intervenções em favelas localizadas na Região do ABC e financiadas no âmbito do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento -Urbanização de Assentamentos Precá-rios (PAC-UAP).1 Esse programa canaliza recursos para ações de urbanização de 49 assentamentos precários do tipo favela ou loteamentos irregulares nessa região. Observa-se que é baixa a execução dos contratos de financiamento e repasse. A caracterização dos assentamentos e das intervenções fornece um panorama geral da execução do programa e possibilita identificar seus entraves. Conclui-se que, para compreender os baixos índices de execução das obras de urbanização de favelas será importante entender a característica desses territórios, natureza das intervenções, regulamentação e operacionalização do programa e as limitações institucionais dos governos municipais.Palavras-chave: favela; assentamentos precários; urbanização de favelas; região do ABC. AbstractThis paper analyzes interventions in slums located in the ABC Region (State of São Paulo, Brazil) that have been financed in the context of Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento -Urbanização de Assentamentos Precários (PAC-UAP). Through this program, financial resources aimed at the upgrading of 49 precarious settlements (slums) are allocated to this region. The research shows evidence of low efficiency in the implementation of projects. Our characterization of the settlements and interventions provides a general panorama of the program's implementation and its bottlenecks. It is concluded that, to understand the lack of efficiency in slum upgrading, it is important to understand the characteristics of these territories, the nature of interventions, the regulation and operationalization of the program, and the institutional limitations of municipal governments.

In this paper, the Curitiba-centred narrative on the success of its urban planning experience will be qualified in light of the complexities of its metropolitan development trajectory. It will be claimed that the institutional vacuum that surrounds Brazilian metropolitan areas in general, and Greater Curitiba in particular, has been intensified by the emergence of a competitive and decentralised state spatial regime, which has consolidated a fragmented and neo-localist system of governance. Preliminary empirical evidence will be provided on the challenges that are being faced within the new regime in articulating socio-spatial, economic and environmental strategies in the direction of a more sustainable metropolitan future.

This article provides a theoretical interpretation on the limits and potentials of the internationally highly acclaimed Brazilian urban reform as implemented since the 1990s. We argue that representations grounded in collaborative planning and neo-institutional property theory are of little help in providing insights to the somewhat disappointing progress of 'really existing' Brazilian urban reform. We provide a different theoretical framework based on adapted regulation theory and critical Brazilian urban scholarship. While it underlines that better plans, planning processes and redistributive land-market instruments frequently fail to produce better cities in light of a contradictory developmental state mode of production itself, it also recognizes potential progressive praxis of social movements and local governance. KeywordsBrazil, critical theory, developmental state, right to the city, urban reform Setting the sceneThe post-June 2013 urban protests that originated around demands for affordable and better transportation and housing have, as far as that was needed, generated additional doubts whether the recent Brazilian 'new-developmental momentum' has indeed produced better cities with reduced socio-environmental contradictions.There has been much debate on the significance of the Brazilian urban planning experience since the demise of the techno-bureaucratic developmental regime in the 1980s. The overall thrust of the analysis regarding the achievements of a supposedly rightsbased planning approach in a market economy is quite positive. The Brazilian experience

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