Urban Brazil - political-institutional perspective of Brazilian urbanization

Resumo

This article deals with a much neglected aspect of urban politics and urban policy in Brazil: the political-institutional aspect. In the last thirty years or 80, a radical process of urbanization has led Brazil to become an urban country/society. This process, however, has been analyzed mainly through an economical approach, which has (in a certain way) neglected the relationship between territory and power and has overviewed the emergence of a new and different territorial matrix of the National State. That being 80, this article attempts to follow recent approaches more concerned with the political-institutional aspect and thus brings about a contribution which may enlarges and deepens the debate in the field. It is still a preliminary and exploratory move and further efforts must be carried out. Nevertheless, it certainly brings about new lights and opens up new paths by arguing mainly that Brazil has experienced a “generalization of the urban" and that this phenomenon is still opened to modem, multi-theoretically oriented, investigations.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

1990

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/9069