State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions

Caldeira, Teresa; Holston, James

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“…As is well known, one of the main achievements of Brazilian social movements has been to influence the 1988 Brazilian Constitution and a radically innovative urban legislation, the 2001 Estatuto da Cidade (see Caldeira and Holston, 2005). In 2002, the city of Sa˜o Paulo approved a new master plan according to this federal legislation.…”

Section: Maintenance Of a Popular Land Marketmentioning

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Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south

Caldeira¹

2016

Environ Plan D

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Many cities around the world have been largely constructed by their residents, who build not only their own houses, but also frequently their neighborhoods. In this article, I use the notion of peripheral urbanization to analyze this way of producing cities that is quite pervasive in the global south. I argue that peripheral urbanization refers to modes of the production of space that (a) operate with a specific temporality and agency, (b) engage transversally with official logics, (c) generate new modes of politics, and (d) create highly unequal and heterogeneous cities. I also argue that peripheral urbanization not only produces heterogeneity within the city as it unfolds over time, but also varies considerably from one city to another. I build my arguments by juxtaposing dissimilar cases from a few cities in the global south. To focus on peripheral urbanization means simultaneously to de-center urban theory and to offer a bold characterization of modes of the production of space that are different from those that generated the cities of the North Atlantic.

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Section: Maintenance Of a Popular Land Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south

Caldeira¹

2016

Environ Plan D

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“…Teresa Caldeira (2000) examines São Paulo as a "city of walls," providing a rich ethnographic account of how the rich increasingly barricade themselves against the poor. In another study, Caldeira and Holston (2005) note that migrants in Brazil stream into the cities to claim citizenship rights by staking out land and putting pressure on municipal governments to deliver urban facilities. In a similar vein, Arjun Appadurai (2002) identifies a form of "deep democracy" in demands by Mumbai slum-dwellers for basic infrastructural services.…”

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Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global

2011

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“…Market-disciplined and transnationally oriented city-building technologies now exert a conspicuous influence on spatial planning for the region, particularly in the extreme north area comprised of Roraima and northern Amazonas. Several contextual factors obscure the significance that neoliberal urbanism has had there and throughout Brazil (Caldeira and Holston, 2005). These include the following: (a) a pervasive developmentalist discourse of national progress and emergence of neopopulist approaches to the governing of social reproduction (Druck and Filgueiras, 2007); (b) the Brazilian nation-state's quest to lead processes of regional integration according to its interests, and to acquire recognition as an environmental champion as part of its global geopolitical influence (Castro, 2012;Mello and Théry, 2003).…”

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Paving (through) Amazonia: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Reperipheralization of Roraima

Kanai

Oliveira

2014

Environ Plan A

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Abstract. This paper examines the neoliberal reshaping of infrastructure provision in Brazil's extreme north since the mid-1990s, when roadway investments resulted in unprecedented regional connectivity. The BR-174 upgrade, the era's most important project, marked a transition from resource-based developmentalism to free-market transnationalism. Primarily concerned with urban competitiveness, the federal government funded the trunk roadway's paving to facilitate manufacturing exports from Manaus. While an effort was made to minimize deforestation, planners sidelined development implications in adjacent Roraima. The state's urban system has thus experienced reperipheralization and intensified primacy. Market-led growth now compounds the inheritance of hierarchical centralism and ongoing governmental neglect. Our study shows a vast territory dependent on primate cities for basic goods and services. Travelling with Roraimans from bypassed towns, we detected long-distance passenger transportation and surface logistics with selective routes. Heterogeneous Roraiman (im)mobilities comprise middle-class tourism and heightened consumerism as well as informal mobility tactics and transnational circulations of precarious labor. The paper exhorts neoliberal urbanism research to look beyond both EuroAmerica's metropoles and their Global South counterparts. Urbanization dynamics in Brazil's extreme north demonstrate that market-disciplined investments to globalize cities produce far-reaching spatial effects. These are felt even by functionally-articulatedyet-marginalized peripheries in ostensibly remote locations.

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State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions

Cited by 47 publications

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Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south

Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south

Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global

Paving (through) Amazonia: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Reperipheralization of Roraima

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