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Reflexões sobre o impacto do urbanismo neoliberal na materialização do direito à cidade

Abstract

This article aims to conceptually discuss the impact of neoliberal urbanism on the materialization of the right to the city, taking as a basis for this reflection the work of environmental recovery and urbanization in the Seminary neighborhood, in the municipality of Crato/CE, which was financed through an agreement of loan entered into between the Government of the State of Ceará, through the Secretariat of Cities, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BIRD). It traces bibliographical research and documentary research as a methodological path, and dialogues with authors who are based on social and critical theory to directly analyze the categories of neoliberal urbanism, right to the city and international financing of public policies, as well as transversally the involuntary resettlement category. He understands that the discussions are embryonic and that new plural dialogues should be made possible to reach the essence of the object, but he sees that contemporary cities are being structured for the flow of goods and accommodation of capital, often preventing the citizen from enjoying of spaces built socially and with public resources in an equal way, with, therefore, an unequal access to the right to the city.