Based on the case of São Paulo's North Zone (bill currently underway at the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo), this article aims to develop a critical appraisal of the Development Poles strategy, which was adopted by the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo (Brazil). The bill extends tax and urban incentives to the three main North Zone subsectors.
KEYWORDS:
urban development; “Development Pole” strategy; Strategic Master Plan (pde); São Paulo (Brazil)
| Anhanguera | Fernão Dias | Raimundo Pereira de Magalhães |
|---|---|---|
| - Total area: 33.5 km2 | - Total area: 73 km2 | - Total area: 69.1 km2 |
| - Resident population: 79,000 inhabitants. (Seade, 2017) | - Resident population: 436,000 inhabitants. (Seade, 2017) | - Resident population: 462,000 inhabitants. (Seade, 2017) |
| - Formal jobs: 2,476; 0.5% of total jobs in the North Zone (RAIS, 2017) | - Formal jobs: 45,358; 9% of total jobs in the North Zone (RAIS, 2017) | - Formal jobs: 69,225; 14% of total jobs in the North Zone (RAIS, 2017) |
| - Occupancy rate: 34% (OD Metro 2017) | - Occupancy rate: 37% (OD Metro 2017) | - Occupancy rate: 35% (OD Metro 2017) |
| - % of households in slums: 7.8% (Habita-Sampa; Sead; Housind Projects) | - % of households in slums: 10.1% (Habita-Sampa; Sead; Housind Projects) | - % of households in slums: 14.1% (Habita-Sampa; Sead; Housind Projects) |
| Challenges | Opportunities |
|---|---|
| - "Urbanization without a city", with social and environmental liabilities. | - Implementation of public infrastructure investments in the North Zone (set forth in the Strategic Master Plan or in other urban planning instruments). |
| - Deindustrialization and reprimarization of exports on a national scale. | |
| - Economic crisis followed by slow recovery of growth an of the job market. | |
| - More intense productive restructuring in the Metropolitan Area and the city of São Paulo, with demobilization of industrial investments. | - Emergence of a specialized services sector, which is polarized in the city of São Paulo; |
| - Attraction of logistics investments. | |
| - Formation of the São Paulo Macrometropolis with expansion of the processing industry. | - Completion of the ring road (Rodoanel) and strategic macro and metropolitan repositioning; |
| - Attraction of demobilized industrial investments that remain in the macro and metropolitan rings. |
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Source: Bill No. 01-00669/2018.
Source: Local Government of the City of São Paulo. Strategic Master Plan, 2014.
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