- Urban Governmentalization and Public Participation in Sao Paulo   click here to open paper content371 kb
by    Torres, Nilton | nrtorres@usp.br   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
This study evaluates the thesis that planning is a government strategy aimed
at 'governing' urban populations.
Abstract
This study evaluates the thesis that planning is a government strategy
aimed at 'governing' urban populations. To discuss this statement the paper
takes as a reference point the post-structuralist discussion of power, the
state and government in contemporary societies. By taking planning as a
practice of government the text assesses the Brazilian experience of
planning over the last ten years, and shows how planning as a practice of
urban regulation has become a legitimation strategy of government.
Keywords
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice
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