Abstract
This article discusses the issue of the waterfront regeneration (WR) policies in Brazil. Specifically, it proposes a political sociology of the institutional processes of production of such interventions through the analysis of the cases of the projects Porto Maravilha, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Cais Mauá, in Porto Alegre (RS), and Porto Novo and Novo Recife, in Recife (PE). For this purpose, it articulates a theoretical reading of different approaches directed at the phenomena of the political and the urban to a qualitative empirical research of multiple case study based on document analysis and interviews. At the end, it proposes an analytical model for the interpretation of the cases based on the theoretical synthesis developed and, especially, on the neo-institutionalist perspective, and presents a possible framework for reading the processes of production of such policies in Brazil.
Keywords:
Waterfront regeneration; Political Sociology; Urbanism; Neo-institutionalism; Multiple cases