scholarly journals Urban Planning and Residential Segregation in Brazil—The Failure of the “Special Zone of Social Interest” Instrument in Londrina City (PR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13285
Author(s):  
Eduarda Marques da Costa ◽  
Ideni Terezinha Antonello
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Special Zone ◽  
Municipal Level

The objective of this analysis is linked to the discussion of urban residential segregation marked by the Brazilian urban land structure and perpetuated by urban planning instruments at the municipal level. The spatial focus of the study is the municipality of Londrina (state of Paraná/Brazil). We aimed to analyze the relationship between urban zoning and the dynamics of residential segregation, unfolding two foci: verify to what extent the objectives presented in the municipal instrument translate the objectives of the instrument at the federal level (the City Statute–CE) and the national program “My Home, My Life” aimed to provide housing to socially vulnerable populations; the second focus, aims to assess how the planning instrument—the Special Zone of Social Interest (ZEIS), contemplated in the Land Use and Occupation Law and in the Municipal Master Plan of Londrina (PDPML, 2008)—materializes in practice the objectives of promoting equity in access to housing. The results show that although the objectives defined at the federal level are transposed to the municipal level, demonstrating a theoretical coherence between the instruments, there are flaws in their implementation. The case study results show that the urban zoning of Londrina has as a guideline a segregationist territorial ordering, leading to a residential segregation of the population with low purchasing power. On the other hand, the planning instrument that could change this reality is the ZEIS that, on the contrary, reinforced social housing in the periphery, conditioning the right to the city and perpetuating the social vulnerability of disadvantaged groups, in a process common to other Brazilian cities. Such constraints make relevant the establishment of land reserves for social housing based on clear roles of a social and functional mix, reinforced by the combat of vacant spaces and the definition of minimal housing and infrastructure densities to allow urban occupation.

scholarly journals Urban planning instruments for promoting social interest housing: from zoning to obligatory percentages in São Paulo, Brazil, in dialog with Bogotá, Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Freire Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Restructuring ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

One of the major challenges for urban planning in Latin America is to provide low-income families with housing in areas that have an infrastructure and a good supply of jobs and services, thereby promoting diversity and equity, translated by mixing classes, races and social cohesion. This mission becomes increasingly difficult in a neoliberal capitalist context which transfers the task of providing land and housing for low-income families to the market and where the logic of such actions is based on achieving more rent from land and consequently of the holding of real estate becoming more profitable. This paper sets out to discuss two proposals for urban instruments that dialog with the production of housing through the market and guarantee of the right to the city. The first centered on the reserve of land for the production of social interest housing (HIS, in Portuguese) in the zoning by creating Special Social Interest Housing Zones (ZEIS, in Portuguese), spread throughout Brazil, and described here based on the experience of São Paulo. Or else, comparatively, classifying land to be used as a priority for social housing (vivienda de interés prioritário) widespread in Colombia, and here presented by the Bogota experience. There is another, which already has international experience and has recently been debated in Brazil, which consists of conceiving of the promotion of social interest housing policies based on the regulation of urban restructuring but experiences of this are rare in Brazil. These may be termed as inclusive housing policies. As a result, this article points out that the creation of alternative regulations has set the tone for the market to exclude itself  from producing housing of social interest, and guarantees greater profitability to commercial undertakings. 

scholarly journals QUALIDADE AMBIENTAL E URBANA NA HABITAÇÃO SOCIAL EM PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE -SP:O CASO DO CONJUNTO HABITACIONAL ANA JACINTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Fernanda Fonseca de Oliveira ◽  
Jean Guilherme Oliveira ◽  
Tiago Bonfim Dias ◽  
Mayara Pissutti Albano Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Quality Mark ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The right to suitable housing has become recognized and accepted by the international community since its inclusion in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, whosetext, in its article 25, alleges that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living for the family’s health and welfare, including food, clothing, medical care and the necessary social services. In Brazil, low constructive and architectural quality mark the production of social housing, culminating on the reduction of the beneficiary’s quality of life and environmental problems. Therefore, the present work aims to submit surveys and analysis of Ana Jacinta housing complex in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, in order to evaluate the environmental and urban quality of the units delivered to beneficiaries in the early 1990s. The methodology isbased in bibliographic and documentary surveys.

Edible public space. Experimenting with a socio-environmentally just urbanism

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Chiara Tornaghi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Space Project ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper presents an English case of urban agriculture, the Edible Public Space Project in Leeds, contextualised in a context of urban agriculture initiatives committed to social-environmental justice, to the reproduction of common goods and the promotion of an urban planning which promotes the right to food and to the construction of urban space from the bottom up. The case study emerged as the result of action-research at the crossroads between urban planning policies, community work and critical geography. As opposed to many similar initiatives, the Edible Public Space Project is not intended merely as a temporary initiative hidden within the tiny folds of the city, but rather as an experiment which imagines and implements alternatives to current forms of urban planning within those folds and it contextualises them in the light of the ecological, fi nancial and social crisis of the last decade.

scholarly journals La actuación sobre el medio urbano de regeneración y renovación integrada. El nuevo paradigma de la gestión urbanística en suelo urbanizado = The integrated regeneration and renovation in the urban intervention. The new paradigm of city planning management

2020 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alvaro Cerezo Ibarrondo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
City Planning ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Urban Intervention ◽  
Urban Preservation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Property ◽  
The City

ResumenLa actuación sobre el medio urbano de regeneración y renovación integrada (aMU-RRi) configura el nuevo paradigma de la intervención urbana, la preservación urbana con carácter conjunto e integrado. Para ello redefine la viabilidad económica, afecta el deber de conservación del derecho de propiedad a la actuación y articula un modelo de equidistribución de reparto de costes que supera las pautas del urbanismo que hemos conocido.El presente artículo constituye un breve recorrido histórico por los instrumentos y técnicas que ha dispuesto el urbanismo español para la preservación urbana: desde inviable e insostenible modelo clásico del urbanismo, pasando por el modelo de la sostenibilidad que incorporó la sostenibilidad plena y el régimen estatutario del derecho de propiedad, pero que estableció un régimen general de intervención sobre el suelo urbanizado inviable y dejó un hueco falto de regulación para la preservación de la ciudad; para alcanzar la definición de la aMU-RRi con la legislación del modelo por la ciudad y sus adaptaciones autonómicas de medio urbano y que ayudará a la formación del nuevo paradigma urbanístico, basado en la función social del derecho de propiedad que nos hemos dado para la preservación urbana conjunta e integrada de eso que llamamos, la ciudad.AbstractThe integrated urban regeneration and renewal intervention (aMU-RRi) configures the new paradigm of urban intervention, with its joint and integrated character for urban preservation. To this end, it redefines the economic viability, affects the duty of preservation of the right of property and articulates a model of equistribution of distribution of costs that surpasses the urban planning guidelines that we have known.This paper constitutes a brief historical journey through the instruments and techniques that Spanish urban planning has provided for urban preservation: from an unviable and unsustainable classic urban planning model, through the sustainability model that it incorporated full sustainability and the statutory property rights regime, but that established an unviable general intervention regime in the existing city areas and also left a gap due to the lack of regulation for the preservation of the city; and finally up to the definition of the aMU-RRi with city preserving legislation and its regional adaptations and that will help the formation of the new urban paradigm, based on the social function of property rights that we have been given for the joint and integrated urban preservation of what we call, the city.

Urban Construction Based on the Phenomenon of the “Niche”

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 619-623
Author(s):  
Bin Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Geological Environment ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Urban Construction ◽  
The Right ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
The City

Every city has its own special “niche”. The inborn geological environment, local conditions and customs, building style, historical cultural traditions, esthetic tastes, and historical human culture have formed the basis for the special “niche” of a city. The basic principle in urban planning and construction is to find out the right “niche” of the city and make full use of the natural conditions and respect the historical unity and coherence in building the city.

scholarly journals Indicadores de sustentabilidade para avaliação de zonas especiais de interesse social (ZEIS) para implantação de habitação social na cidade de Piracicaba-SP / Sustainability indicators for assessment of special zones of social interest (ZEIS) for (...)

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (46) ◽  
pp. 464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Braga
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
The City

<p>Este trabalho visa discutir e desenvolver parâmetros e indicadores de sustentabilidade para a avaliação de Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social-ZEIS para a implantação de habitação de interesse social. A ZEIS é um instrumento criado nos anos 1980 e adotado pelo Estatuto da Cidade (Lei Federal 10.257/2001), que visa a regularização fundiária e implantação de habitação de interesse social. A área de estudo é o município de Piracicaba, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, com 370 mil habitantes, na região de Campinas. A sustentabilidade das ZEIS foi avaliada a partir de sua localização e com base em um sistema de quatro grupos de indicadores: densidade/compacidade urbana; ecologia urbana; diversidade socioespacial e conectividade/acessibilidade. Para cada em desses grupos foram avaliados indicadores específicos que puderam qualificar cada umas das ZEIS. Os resultados apontaram que a maioria das ZEIS criadas não só descumpriram requisitos básicos de sustentabilidade, como diminuíram a sustentabilidade do sistema urbano como um todo.</p><p><strong>Palavras–chave:</strong> ZEIS, sustentabilidade, habitação social, expansão urbana, cidades sustentáveis.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This paper aims to discuss and develop benchmarks and indicators for assessing the sustainability of Special Zones of Social Interest-ZEIS for the implementation of social housing. The ZEIS is an instrument created in 1980 and adopted by the City Statute (Federal Act 10257/2001), which aims to secure tenure and implementation of social housing. The study area is the city of Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, with 370,000 inhabitants in the region of Campinas. The sustainability of ZEIS was assessed from its location and based on a system of four groups of indicators: density / urban compactness; urban ecology; socio-spatial diversity and connectivity / accessibility. For each of these groups on specific indicators that might qualify every one of ZEIS were evaluated. The results showed that most ZEIS created not only breached basic sustainability requirements, decreased as the sustainability of the urban system as a whole.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: ZEIS, sustainability, social housing, urban expansion, sustainable cities.</p>

scholarly journals Civic media and technologies of belonging: Where digital citizenship and ‘the right to the city’ converge

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giota Alevizou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This article contributes to an emerging field of ‘urban communication’ research and its intersections with civic culture and digital citizenship. It does so by presenting a case study of how an activist group in North London’s Tottenham region co-designed bespoke digital media platforms, akin to civic media, to advocate an approach to urban planning that also recognizes migrants’ rights. Conducted as a part of a broader participatory action research project, the study outlined here offers an analysis of the online and offline communicative routes taken, the urban rights enacted and the visions expressed during an eight-week consultation period. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative metrics from the official and alternative digital platforms inviting consultation around the community-led planning application, the article offers insights about the co-construction of space, and the effect that the particular site had in unearthing wider enactments of ‘the right to the city’ and affective belonging, alongside struggles against threats of displacement. By offering these insights, the study contributes to a better understanding of the digital mediation of belonging through space/place and what this means for urban citizenship. Looking beyond processes of urban planning, this understanding seeks to contribute to wider debates of urban citizenship, often expressed at the intersection of urban rights, digital citizenship and virtual reality.

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