URBAN REGULATORY FRAMEWORK OF GOIÂNIA CITY, GOIÁS

Abstract

In surveying the history of Brazilian urban space production, we realize how urban land has always been understood as a profitable (surplus) product for various social actors, such as the state and real estate developers. Such production occurs in two strands: one, in regular processes, in urban planning and another, on the fringes of this process, in the struggle for urban land. Thus, it was no different when building the capital of Goiás. A history of how urban legislation is structured in the city reveals the arrangements that have been established among urban space producing agents since their inception and culminated in the landscape that presents itself today. In the case of Goiânia, the land issue explains part of the constitution of this City, conceived as a private heritage, although the Civic Center and the administrative buildings, the reason for their existence, have the literal meaning of what is public use. Since its founding 87 years ago, the (metropolitan) Capital has recorded "illegal" occupations that have shaped the sprawling and uneven landscape. The administrations were busy publishing urban development plans, based on agreements with the real estate circuit, but did not shy away from using the same regulatory framework to publish the "regularization" of capital movements.