Regulación de uso del suelo urbano: discusión sobre el caso de Curitiba

• Main Author: Rosa Moura
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2001-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: urban legislation; land use regulation; metropolitan management
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/3032/2423

In 1999, a new land use law was approved in Curitiba. Its construction and approval process offers elements to discuss the meaning of a legal frame in the reinforcement of a hegemonic power around a metropolitan space, and the creation of conditions to attract the international capital, mainly from the real estate market. Trying to analyse this process, identifying elements possible to be generalised in theland use regulation of protagonists’ cities, this study examines and summarises observations on the topics: law for highlight the city-model; the lack of metropolitan instruments; conflicts between Instruments and particular interests; urban and social effects; constitutionality and observation of democratic principles.Finalising, the study intends to discuss that the dispositions included in the law and its illegitimate participation procedures have resulted in a refusing among society segments.