ASPECTOS POLÍTICOS DA TEORIA DE FLÁVIO VILLAÇA: O PROGRESSISMO URBANÍSTICO EM TEMPOS DE ABERTURA DEMOCRÁTICA

• Autor(a) principal: de Campos Andrade Lamparelli, Júlio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Geografar
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/geografar/article/view/78235
• topic: Planejamento Urbano; Plano Diretor; Nova República; Setor Imobiliário; Urban Planning; Master Plan; New Republic; Real Estate Sector

Even in not always an immediate way, Flavio Villaça’s reflections on Brazilian cities keep a certain relation with the political setting of his time – mainly the historical time starting as from the democratic opening. Taking the theoretical aspects of his work into account and assuming they underlie his more political writings about Urban Planning in Brazil, one may say the reflections of the author are oriented as a whole towards the following theme: to distribute in a less unequal way the location-commodities. The theory adds to what we are calling “urbanistic progressivism”: the field of forces which was opened in Brazilian urban planning, especially in the left wing town halls of that ending century, with a highlight to São Paulo’s experience of 1989-92. Such experiences can be grasped here as an attempt to politicize market instruments, combining, broadly speaking, the following structure: the creation of public funds raised upon the capture of real estate resources, intended in general to the democratization of the housing market. The formation of a “theory and practice” complex reveals, in its turn, that thought and politics ran along the same lines: to fight social injustice by means of market mechanisms.  Insofar as it is a marxist theory- Villaça’s theory, in this case- it does not come as a surprise that the impasses faced by practice all along the New Republic were, as a rule, anticipated by theoretical paradoxes contained in the autor’s work.