Abstract

LAGO BURNETT, Frederico. Urban planning, positivist ideology and fairer cities. The case of Brazil. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.1, pp.15-25.  Epub Apr 06, 2020. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v30n1.67081.

This article discusses the influences of the positivist ideology on urban planning and its consequences on the urban reform movement that, since the country's democratization, defends the right to the city's flag. Understanding positivism as an ideology of the bourgeois order, deeply rooted in the modern Brazilian state, the text accompanies its internalization by the state bureaucracy in the 1930s, the subsequent absorption by developmental urban planners in the 1950s and 1960s, and the capture of the National Front Urban Reform in fight for fairer cities in the country. Linked to the government of the Workers' Party, the institutionalization of participatory procedures and official negotiations become priority avenues for achieving a diffuse and abstract social function of the city, distancing the movement from popular struggles and making it impossible to achieve political autonomy. Unable to react to the policy of conciliation, it submits its flags to capitalist development, aggravating socio-spatial inequalities and contributing to the crisis of cities, a context that leads the urban struggle to the impasse and requires reflection and self-criticism.

Keywords : capitalist state; urban reform; political autonomy.

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