Abstract

SOUZA, Jairo  and  RESCHILIAN, Paulo. Reform of the administrative structure of municipalities and the institutionalization of social representations about the city: the primacy of management generating an urban (dis)order in São José dos Campos, Brazil. GOT [online]. 2018, n.15, pp.403-428. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2018.15.017.

This article intends to unveil the mechanisms of legislative adaptation used in São José dos Campos, Brazil, for the institutionalization of a social representation constructed from a discourse of respect to the rules and of foment to the entrepreneurship in an attempt to qualify the place to compete for new capital. Discusses the potential of production of urban order by reversing the logical process of planning and rearrangement of the decision-making flows engendered by changing the administrative structure implemented at the beginning of 2017, which point to the strengthening of technocratic power and the consequent emptying of politics. It concludes by emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift based on the primacy of democratic urban planning and the Right to the City.

Keywords : urban planning; social representations; urban order; São José dos Campos; social representations; right to the city.

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