Urban Project and Urban Operation Consortium: Between Concepts, Plans and Reality

Abstract

The historical process of regulation of urban planning instruments aimed at socioterritorial equity in Brazil, especially in Sao Paulo, date back to the Federal Constitution of 1988, the City Statute (Federal Law 10.257/2001), and the Master Plan of the City 2002, with the force of law. The discontinuity between the statement of regulatory instruments and their 

application is the general subject of this article that through a case, seeks to understand the conflicts, opportunities and obstacles to the effective practice of urban planning in the country and at the municipal level. One of the mechanisms of induced development of urban areas secured by such means of regulation are the Urban Consortium Operations, through which urban projects implemented in target perimeters, consist in the possibility of an extensive urban transformation through urban design associated with market practice real estate. The concept of urban project then consists of an

indispensable tool for historical understanding of their application, and provides a critical analysis of plans and projects. It discusses beyond this concept, the difficulties of implementing it within the scope of the Brazilian urban legislation, and how it faces the fact of a region without a design transforms itself by the common practice in Brazilian cities of r The article discusses the concept of urban design from a historical and critical perspective, approaching it from four selected references, the whole work of Mario Lungo, François Ascher, Juan Busquets and Nuno Portas, admittedly known for spreading the debate Urban Project theme, to identify recurrences and significant conceptual differences.eal estate capital combined with traditional zoning. The article discusses the concept of urban design from a historical and critical perspective, approaching it from selected references, between 2003-2015, in order to identify recurrences and significant conceptual differences. It discusses beyond this concept, the difficulties of implementing it within the Brazilian urban legislation, and how to face the fact that a region - that was the subject in 2003-2004 of technical studies then SEMPLA - Municipal Planning for achievement an urban project and an Urban Operation Consortium (Vila LeopoldinaJaguaré), which was not performed, become the standard practice in the Brazilian cities of performance of real estate capital combined with traditional zoning.