The production of urban space in Brazilian society: disputes and alternatives

Abstract

Neoliberal rationales and their pace of space production, which extend the imperatives of the market and private property to spatial planning, currently dominate cities. Even with the consolidation of participatory processes, a regulatory apparatus of antagonistic urban policies was established in Brazil by allowing some regulation of spatial production, but curbing the effective implementation of the right to the city. However, there is evidence of forms of resistance to the fragmentation and commodification of the urban, seeking the construction of collaborative forms of space production. Thus, the objective of this work is to understand how these new forms of organization and struggle can leverage a more effective search for the right to the city. For that, an analysis of recent works on the new social movements will be carried out, having the city of São Paulo as a territorial cut. The study is justified since the critical reflection on the production of space demands the discussion of the clashes and contradictions that arise between democratization and neoliberalism, pointing to the need to analyze the Brazilian socio-spatial reality and seeking to reflect on possibilities of new matrices for the production of urban space as a collective construction of society.

Keywords
urban crisis; urban struggles; urban social movements; production of urban space