CONTEMPORARY SPACE POLICIES AND THE REPRODUCTION OF CAPITAL AND URBAN

Abstract

In this article we intend to present the hypothesis that policy space is becoming as the mediation of the reproduction process of capital and the urban. In the last decades, the political space revealed the production of space as a instrument in the process of capital valuation, articulating interests, speculative and productive, in the production of new fronts of capital expansion, especially in large cities. Beyond to large urban restructuring projects, considered as a mediation of overcoming obsolescence, from the year 1990, we see the growth of space policies related to poverty reduction, funded by the World Bank.