Characterization of Spatial Planning in Brazil: The Right to the City in Theory and Practice

This article characterizes spatial planning in Brazil from a normative point of view. Because of Brazil’s vast geography and uneven development, it is not possible to describe how spatial planning is carried out in all quarters of the country. We explore key aspects of spatial planning in the country using policy goals, the legal and...

Urban informality and democratisation in Sao Paulo: The sinous road to citizenship

There has been a renewed interest in informal urbanization among urban thinkers in the last decades. In their contributions to the discourse on urban informality, we often find an overvaluation of informality’s positive aspects. The underlying argument is that governments and planners should ‘learn’ from informal settlements in the global south,...

Urban informality and democratisation in Sao Paulo: The sinuous road to citizenship