Participatory planning and the insurgent city: the challenges of the right to the city in Belo Horizonte

Silvestre, G

doi:10.2307/jj.13473647.16

Participatory planning and the insurgent city: the challenges of the right to the city in Belo Horizonte

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Gabriel Silvestre ORCiD

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Abstract

Transformative planning practices able to confront the reproduction of inequalities in Brazilian cities have, in recent decades, been characterized by two interrelated processes. On the one hand, the relatively cohesive and enduring broad coalition under the banner of the “urban reform agenda” has, since the 1980s, been able to shape and influence legislation, policy and planning education. Moved by the ideal of translating the right to the city into material changes, there has been an institutionalization of planning instruments designed to promote social justice, policy innovations and social participation at different government scales. On the other hand, despite a period...