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Land regularization actions and measurement of urban disagreement: the case of federal lands under the protection of Federal University of Pará in the city of Belém (PA)

It is discussed here the meaning of urban disagreement as the denial of the right to the city in opposition to what has been stated in the recent Brazilian urban legislation (Cities Statute Law 10.257 from 2001), in order to contribute to the assessment of public policies on land regularization actions, considering the multifaceted nature of this right. With this objective, it is briefly described the process of occupation started in the 1970s, on public Union land Union, defined for the implementation of the Pará Federal University (UFPA) first with the Guamá Campus (Belém, Pará, Brazil) and then occupied by low income population on areas not object of academic purposes. It is highlighted survey and registration methods, social practices and land tenure documentation developed by UFPA from 1991. The results of this experiment permitted evaluating its impacts in the context of urban disagreements suffered by the occupants, stressing the challenges that seek to ensure the right to the city, as a gradually, integrated and above all inclusive objective of public policies.

Urban disagreement; Land tenure regularization; Belém


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