Urban Studies · 2014 · 90 citations · 16 references
Public AffairsUrban PlanningUrban PolicyParticipatory PlanningZoningZoning LawMunicipal GovernmentParticipatory PolicymakingUrban Policy AnalysisUrban Public PolicyUrban ZoningZoning PolicyCitizen Participation In Constitution-makingMaster Plan ImplementationUrban Planning ReformUrban Policy Implementation
The 1988 Citizen Constitution and its mandated federal law established the legal framework for urban policy in Brazil. The study examines participatory urban planning as a model of democratic urban reform in Brazil, aiming to analyze how this paradigm reshapes master planning. The authors analyze the implementation of the 2001 Estatuto da Cidade, which required 30 % of municipalities to adopt participatory master plans, and the 2002–2004 São Paulo Master Plan and Zoning Law, including its 2007 revision.
This paper focuses on participatory urban planning as a model of urban reform and democratic invention in Brazil. Its case material regards the formulation and implementation of two sets of urban laws of very broad consequence. First, we discuss briefly the chapter on urban policy in the 1988 Citizen Constitution and the federal law that it mandates. The latter is the Estatuto da Cidade, the City Statute, from 2001, which required that 1600 cities (approximately 30%) of Brazilian municipalities either create Master Plans or reformulate existing ones according to its principles and on the basis of popular participation. Second, we focus on São Paulo’s Master Plan (2002) and Zoning Law (2004) that fulfill this requirement and on the Plan’s required revision in 2007. By examining this massive constitutionally mandated formulation of urban policy, our aim is to analyse the development of a new paradigm of urban policy that reinvents master planning.
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