Urban Operations: Public–Private Partnerships Globalizing São Paulo

Marina Toneli Siqueira

doi:10.1108/S1479-358X(2012)0000008020

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Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis

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Urban Operations: Public–Private Partnerships Globalizing São Paulo

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Title:	Urban Operations: Public–Private Partnerships Globalizing São Paulo
Author(s):	Marina Toneli Siqueira
Volume:	8 Editor(s): Carol Camp Yeakey ISBN: 978-1-78052-032-2 eISBN: 978-1-78052-033-9
Citation:	Marina Toneli Siqueira (2012), Urban Operations: Public–Private Partnerships Globalizing São Paulo, in Carol Camp Yeakey (ed.) Living on the Boundaries: Urban Marginality in National and International Contexts (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, Volume 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.389-413
DOI:	10.1108/S1479-358X(2012)0000008020 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This chapter discusses the Brazilian redevelopment policy denominated urban operation. First implemented in São Paulo in the 1980s, it was included in the Brazilian federal urban legislation in 2001 as an instrument to promote the redevelopment of great urban areas through public–private partnerships. On the one hand, the local public administration would provide incentives to investments in a given project, especially by selling construction rights; on the other hand, the value captured would be reinvested in the same area, following a list of works that may include urban infrastructure and services. The main benefits expected are structural change without onus for the public administration; a more balanced urban growth, estimulating higher density in areas well served by urban infrastructure; and real estate valorization. Nevertheless, this chapter critically analyzes its early experiences in São Paulo, demonstrating an entrepreneurial and speculative logic of spatial production. In this sense, the chapter is structured in four parts. The first one presents the legal instrument, while the following two sections explore the two main aspects of its functioning: great urban projects and public–private partnerships. In the final section, the Urban Operation Faria Lima will be assessed, especially on its attempts to promote São Paulo as a global city. If it is not possible to generalize from this particular experience, it exposes the necessity of discussing how the instrument, now a federal policy, may be implemented in other Brazilian cities, which type of redevelopment it may promote and for whom.