Para quem é a cidade? redes de gestão público-privadas nas reformas urbanas dos centros de Salvador (Brasil) e Cali (Colômbia)

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the form and meanings of how public-private management networks are consolidated in contemporary urban reform processes in two Latin American cities: Salvador and Cali. More specifically, the Revitalize Program implemented since 2017 and the most recently executed Revive Program in the city of Salvador were analyzed, as well as the Ciudad Paraíso Project developed since 2009 in the city of Cali. This thesis presents the main scripts and institutional guidelines of the respective programs, their main public-private urban agents were named and the types and logics of the management networks for the execution of the programs were identified. To identify and analyze the urban agents, a content analysis of institutional documents, newspaper analysis, interviews with public and private agents and the resident population, as well as a review of the literature produced around the reforms in the center were carried out. history of the two cities. This type of urban management networks in the context of the neoliberalization of cities and global capitalism, are characterized by organizing a territorial power that seeks to consolidate old discourses and new urban practices around the logics of Modernization, Recovery, Revitalization, Competitiveness. , Refunctionalization of spaces and the consolidation of Smart Cities. In this sense, we are witnessing a capitalization of the functioning of the public sector that acts in parallel with the interests of private capital in the urban reforms analyzed. These reforms strengthen and ensure, depending on the case analyzed, the heritage tourism approach, the administrative recovery, the refunctionalization of the center, the structuring of an urban center for businesses and boutiques, the improvement of mobility or redensification by the enterprises. In these networks, local governments and political powers were in turn linked to a national and continental trend of building business cities and diverse urban developments. Some of the postulates of the programs, such as the specific case of Revive in Salvador, come from international agendas, are part of the geopolitical relations between governments and are implemented without considering the particularities of the national socio-historical contexts. It is concluded that the networks of public-private management in the context of neoliberal production of Latin American cities, produce conflicts around the uses and against the uses of urban land, to the extent that they focus solely and exclusively on the consolidation of a business city that disdains social programs or social housing for the resident population. Even though this trend is continental in nature, specificities are also evident in the cases analyzed.