Abstract:
The objective of this article is to recoup and present a comprehensive view, of collective and wide timeframe on the structure and dynamics of the urbanization process in Brazil, seeking to synthesize the varied rounds of regulatory experimentation and changes in institutional landscapes in which attempts have been made as to regulate it through urban and regional policies. There has been an expanding, precarious and low-intensity process of urbanization of the sociopolitical forces that structures it, which owns its power to the control of land ownership. Varied attempts to discipline and regulate this control and the speculative urban accumulation have had little success. In recent decades, the circuits of this accumulation have modernized, conglomerated and financialized. Throughout the analyzed period, social struggles of resistance and the activism of social movements have been in action, and are expected to widen with the new conflicts of the current and future urban scene.
Keywords:
Brazil; urbanization; regulatory experimentation; urban and regional planning