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Brazil in the XXI century: new planning and the City Statute

Introduction

This edition of the magazine CIUDAD y TERRITORIO Estudios Territoriales groups together eight essays documenting Brazil’s current reality after the urban and territorial transformations occurring in the last few years. As its contents show, the presence of renowned specialists and technicians in municipal and state institutions and the coming together of all forces of the civil society in national working teams have raised hopes that measures solving to a great extent the problems affecting the majority of the Brazilian population will be firmed up.
The City Statute first and then the creation of the Cities Ministry were the result of a historic demand from popular urban movements.

Description

In its research section the magazine groups together three texts documenting the process of urbanisation in Brazil, marked by the vertiginous increase in population. Another two works focus on the environmental problems existing in large metropolitan areas, and which compromise the possibility of sustainable urban development, one of which deals specifically with the case of the Sao Paulo metropolis. Three further works deal with the requirement of the master plan in relation to average sized municipalities and another deals with the implementation of planning policy in Sao Paulo. These texts will be accompanied by the regular property sections, correspondence, documentation and books and reviews, which will include accumulated indices of magazines published during 2005.

Contact info

Housing Ministry
Paseo de la Castellana, 112
28071 MADRID
Spain
Paloma POZUELO, tel. +34 91 728 4893

Publication date

26/05/2006

Project finished

26/05/2006

Researcher

Roberto Segre and Adauto Lucio Cardoso (rec.)

Article info
ISSN: 1133-4762

Links

Brazil in the XXI century: new planning and the City Statute www.vivienda.es

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Keywords

City centre development, Urban restructuring