Undoing the right to the city: World Cup investments and informal settlements in Fortaleza, Brazil

Freitas, Clarissa Figueiredo Sampaio

doi:10.1080/07352166.2017.1328974

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“…3 However, this context is based on colonial history going back 5 centuries and a history of asymmetry (Maricato, 2008). Part of this inequality is a result of the exclusion of many Brazilians from property, differentiating the ruling elite from others, originating with the interaction of centuries-old policies and practices of land use, law, and the development of illegal urban peripheries lacking infrastructure and services (Freitas, 2017;Holston, 2008). Exclusionary land markets, an absence of affordable housing, clientelism, and elitist urban planning practices have also contributed to this context (Fernandes, 2007).…”

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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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2019

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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“…Introduziu um processo de institucionalização de demandas sobre o direito à cidade, reconhecendo os limites das práticas tecnocráticas de planejamento urbano e buscando expandi-lo. Entretanto, simultaneamente a um claro movimento de democratização da gestão urbana, ocorreu um desmonte dos mecanismos de responsabilidade social do Estado, relacionado com a reestruturação econômica, desregulação e privatização (FREITAS, 2017).…”

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Comunidade Raízes da Praia: uma experiência de práticas insurgentes na cidade de Fortaleza

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Este artigo trata de uma reflexão teórica e processual a respeito de práticas insurgentes, constituídas pela Ocupação Raízes da Praia, hoje uma comunidade, localizada na orla de Fortaleza, Ceará. O artigo é uma reflexão possibilitada pelo trabalho de assessoria técnica desenvolvida pelo grupo do Programa de Educação Tutorial do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Ceará (ArqPET UFC). Ao longo do texto será descrito o histórico dos 09 anos de ocupação da Comunidade, traçando a dimensão do planejamento popular desenvolvido pelos moradores, com os movimentos urbanos e assessorias, como experiência social potente para solucionar a questão da moradia. Ademais, a reflexão interpreta a capacidade de gestão e produção espacial da Comunidade como uma instância de prática insurgente. Configuram como métodos: plano de ações projetuais, observação participante realizada ao longo de 03 anos e meio de atividade de extensão acadêmica de apoio a Comunidade Raízes da Praia, análises de cartografias e documentos jurídicos e entrevistas realizadas com moradores, apoiadores e advogadas.

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“…Although not guaranteeing rights, the development of progressive legislation certainly altered the conditions in which resistance, policy making and critical thinking have developed since. In the context of preparations for the 2014 World Cup, studies have shown, for instance, how the partial recognition of informal residents’ rights was incorporated as part of the strategies to successfully implement exclusionary urban-development projects (Freitas, 2017; Nogueira, 2019).…”

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“…In Brazil, as we have seen, after democratisation, many legal frameworks and channels for citizenship engagement have been developed. At the same time, neoliberal modes of urban governance have emerged, turning cities into sites of profit-seeking developments that deepen socio-spatial inequalities (Freitas, 2017; Klink and Denaldi, 2016). Despite the existence of a burgeoning literature addressing this paradox, the role played by middle-class citizens – who are neither the promoters of urban development nor the dispossessed – remains under-analysed.…”

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“…Since the approval of the CS, there has been a growing number of contributions analysing the shortcomings of the Brazilian socio-urban reform (Rolnik, 2013; Sánchez and Broudehoux, 2013; Vainer, 2015). I argue that, much like the tradition of critical urban studies in the Global South, this prolific scholarship on Brazil has tended to emphasise the struggles of marginalised populations (Fischer et al, 2014; Freitas, 2017) or the profit-seeking urban developments promoted by state–elite coalitions (Gaffney, 2013; Rolnik, 2013). I thus propose to switch the focus to the political practices of middle-class citizens who make use of ‘invited spaces’ (Miraftab, 2004) and mobilise legal frameworks spurred by insurgent movements to shape urban space and produce the ‘right kind of city’ (Centner, 2012).…”

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Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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2019

Urban Studies

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Since re-democratisation, Brazil has experienced a slow but continuous process of urban reform, with the introduction of legal and institutional developments that favour participatory democracy in urban policy. Legal innovations such as the City Statute have been celebrated for expanding the "right to the city" to marginalised populations. While most studies examine the struggles of the urban poor, I focus on middle-class citizens, showing how such legal developments have unevenly affected the ways in which different social groups are able to impact the production of urban space. The two cases explored in this study concern residents struggles to preserve their middle-class neighbourhoods against change triggered by projects related to the hosting of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte/Brazil. The first looks at the Musas Street residents' fight against the construction of a luxury hotel in their neighbourhood, while the second examines the Pampulha residents' struggle against the presence of street vendors and football fans in their streets. My findings show that through the articulation of legal discourses, middle-class claims on the need for preserving the environment and the city's cultural heritage are legitimised by the actions of the local state. The paper thus looks beyond neoliberalism, showing that socio-spatial segregation and inequality should not be regarded solely as the product of state-capital alliances for engendering capital accumulation through spatial restructuring, but also as the result of the uneven capacities of those living in the city to access the state resources and legitimise certain forms of inhabitance of urban space.

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Undoing the right to the city: World Cup investments and informal settlements in Fortaleza, Brazil

Cited by 22 publications

References 15 publications

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

Comunidade Raízes da Praia: uma experiência de práticas insurgentes na cidade de Fortaleza

Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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