Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo

Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation

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ID6404622
AuthorsEduardo Cesar Leão Marques (0000-0001-5569-858X, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume59
Issue2
Pages337-371
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780874211043845
OpenAlexW3214752241
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

It is usually considered that urban policy change happens gradually or abruptly, provoked by coalition shifts, political pressure, or by agenda changes in public policies. However, a broad set of urban policies in São Paulo, Brazil shows the relevance of the third kind of oscillating trajectory not yet accounted for by the literature. Departing from compared urban policies in São Paulo, this article shows incremental progressive trends due jointly to political competition (pushed by progressive governments) and policy production itself. While some programs entered the agenda to stay, others swung between implementation, latency, and reanimation. To investigate these processes, we compare four programs—(a) in situ slum upgrading and (b) bus integration (gradually imposing themselves), (c) cooperative housing construction, and (d) bus lanes/corridors (oscillating between latency and reanimation). The results challenge explanations of urban policy change, contributing to closer dialogues between urban studies and political science

Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Public policy · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban policy · Urban politics · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance

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