The Politics of the ‘Urban’ in São Paulo

Abstract

Discussions in the field of urban policy in Sao Paulo hearken back to Brazil’s first attempts to build its own school of public policy, especially at the local level. The necessity of organizing space, and the community relations that existed there, with a focus on municipalities, from the 1950s on, were the impetus behind the creation of such institutions as the Instituto Brasileiro de Administracao Publica (the Brazilian Institute of Public Administration, or IBAP) in Rio de Janeiro and the [...]