Urban planning and management in Sorocaba-SP: analysis on public politics of popular habitation

• Main Author: Sandro Ivo de Meira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2006-12-01
• Series: Revista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise
• Subjects: Planejamento e gestão urbanos; Plano Diretor; Estatuto da Cidade; política habitacional; Sorocaba-SP; Urban planning and Management; Managing Plan; Statute of the City; Habitation Politics
• Online Access: http://revistas.ufpr.br/raega/article/view/3442

This work is centered in the analysis of the urban planning and management directed to the politics of popular habitation in the Sorocaba city, interior of the state of São Paulo, in period from 1989 to 2004. With main instrument of evaluation of the public politics approved Municipal Managing Plan in 2003 in comparison to the lines of direction of the Statute of the City and the Federal Constitution was used to give greater autonomy to local governments to manage the urban growth thus the public investments it is based on the principle of the social function of the city and the proper property. The study of the urban planning was restricted to the analysis of the Managing Plan where the evaluation of the public actions on the popular habitation in the related period allowed to elucidate the way with that the municipal urban legislation is applied in the direction to keep the speculative actions.