Micro-investments in precarious settlements in São Paulo: decision making processes and arenas

• Grant number: 11/01111-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2011
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Fundamentals of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Raquel Rolnik
• Grantee: Júlio Sarti Caldeira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

São Paulo s periphery has strong attributes such as progressive occupation of the territory and urban infrastructure investments made in a progressive way along soil s occupation by its habitants. However, little has been explored in scientific literature about the decision-making arenas and processes that led to these investments, just like the actors involved in the processes. The project s goal is to unveil the decision-making arenas and processes that led to investments in precarious settlements in the city of São Paulo. It will be chosen one periphery area with a high level of consolidation in São Paulo s metropolitan area to be the target of a case study, in which will be studied the history of the investments in the area regarding urban infrastructure (street paving, river s channelization, electric network installation, sewage, public equipments installation such as schools and hospitals, etc.) and the consolidation of the settlement during the last twenty years, identifying the decision-making agents, arenas and processes that led to these investments. (AU)