City Management, Local Power, and Social Practice
An Analysis of the 1991 Master Plan Process in Recife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4499799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John T Cabral, Alexandrina Sobreira De Moura (0000-0002-9643-7180) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 54-70 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x9602300405 |
| OpenAlex | W2010226136 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The metropolises of Brazil, as in most of Latin America, give the appearance of two different cities in one. There is the city of curbs and gutters and sidewalks and pavement, on the one hand, and the city of raw sewage pools and uncollected garbage, on the other. A large percentage of urban inhabitants, sometimes half or more, are squatter citizens, as Hardoy and Satterthwaite (1989) have called them. Unemployed, underemployed, or self-employed, they are always severely underpaid. Their homes are built illegally, on land occupied illegally, and their work is also outside the official norms, standards, and regulations of the formal labor market. Spatially segregated on the hills in the suburbs or on the banks of rivers, this part of the city, the substandard city, is nonetheless closely integrated, socially and economically, with the planned and fully urbanized part of the metropolis (Perlman, 1976). The marginal condition of the poor has, over the years, been mitigated to some extent, most apparently in the juridic sphere, as collective conflicts over land tenure brought about changes in Brazil's legal system (Moura, 1993a, 1995). The apparent dichotomy between the formal/informal, legal/ illegal, planned/substandard metropolis is caused by the extreme income, social, cultural, and political disparities and inequalities that exist within the metropolis. Throughout the history of Brazil, urban policy has led to a pattern of social exclusion. This exclusion was intensified by the country's political and economic elite when urban modernization was attempted in the early 20th century. In the face of demands for an export-oriented economy, the elite established policy guidelines according to which progress meant transporta
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Elite · Geography · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |