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Brazilian Urban Policy: Sustainability as a Driving Force
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Defining global themes such as Urban Policy, Urban Sustainability, and even the Right to the City (RTTC) is fundamental to stimulating and establishing a continuous dialogue with the scientific community, mainly in the social sciences. Thus, understanding the dynamics around the scope of urban sustainability requires an analysis that is focused on multiple global realities. Taking a holistic view of Brazilian Urban Policy, this entry looks at the historical contexts that make urban sustainability the driving force behind this policy. In addition, an interdisciplinary consideration of urban sustainability is proposed using an analysis that is based on the connection between urban policies and social functions that reflect the idea of a sustainable city. The results of this analysis also point to the need for a continuous debate on the subject that primarily promotes new discoveries; this is so that the driving force of urban policy can gain new meanings and new guidelines can be implemented.
Brazil as a Model for Community-Oriented, Sustainable Urban Development
The sustainable development debate has been ongoing amongst global discussion circles for decades. Fears of the effects caused by increasing global population growth are becoming a reality, and are only recently being taken seriously. With mass movements from rural landscape to urban centers, the heavy carbon footprint is causing some to rethink our current development system. The numerous metropolitan regions of Brazil were faced with this predicament of capitalist expansion and population growth without the capabilities of adaption, nor accommodation. This created an immediate necessity for restructured development policies, and strategies which would acclimate to rising globalization in a sustainable manner. Due to its creative planning, Brazil is now seen as one of the leading countries in the world for participatory planning.1 This report will discuss how these policies remove duality within the same city, as well as combat against some of the globe’s environmental issues. The copying or publishing of this document is prohibited without the author's permission, and/or proper citations of the work. All rights reserved.
Caprotti F (2014) Eco-urbanism and the Eco-city, or, Denying the Right to the City?
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This paper critically analyses the construction of eco-cities as technological fixes to concerns over climate change, Peak Oil, and other scenarios in the transition towards “green capitalism”. It argues for a critical engagement with new-build eco-city projects, first by highlighting the inequalities which mean that eco-cities will not benefit those who will be most impacted by climate change: the citizens of the world's least wealthy states. Second, the paper investigates the foundation of eco-city projects on notions of crisis and scarcity. Third, there is a need to critically interrogate the mechanisms through which new eco-cities are built, including the land market, reclamation, dispossession and “green grabbing”. Lastly, a sustained focus is needed on the multiplication of workers’ geographies in and around these “emerald cities”, especially the ordinary urban spaces and lives of the temporary settlements housing the millions of workers who move from one new project to another.
Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities
This volume arose from proceedings of the conference The Right to the City and Social Ecology—Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities, held in Thessaloniki 1–3 September, 2017. The conference was organized by the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE). TRISE is an association of activists and intellectuals based in Europe, who are concerned with current socio-ecological crises. It was founded in Greece in 2013 and focuses on research, education, and training. The asso- ciation initiates, supports and facilitates research on social ecology, urban social movements, and the democratization of society. Historically, its inspi- ration can be traced to Vermont, US, where the Institute for Social Ecology was co-founded by Murray Bookchin and Dan Chodorkoff in 1974. At the heart of the organization’s mission lies the theory of social ecology. Multiple definitions of social ecology exist. However, TRISE largely follows the innovative philosophy of Murray Bookchin, as well as other writers and activists who developed his work. TRISE aims to foster and develop social ecological analysis and practice that can be adopted for the struggles to come. This book answers this call, exploring the contemporary discourse surrounding urban rights—the right to the city—and presents a selection of new essays on social ecology. This volume seeks to bring the ideas of social ecology into conversation with the worldwide call for the right to the city, thereby challenging and extending existing discussions on both topics in a fruitful cross-fertilization. Theories and practices need to be discovered, engaged with, and transformed in order to build an effective culture of resistance.
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The Limits Of Urban Sustainability
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