THE “TERRITORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY LAW PROJECT” AND THE ACTION OF URBAN GEOGRAPHERS

Abstract

This paper highlights polemical aspects of the 3057/2000 Law Project - “Territorial Accountability Law”- which suggests proposals contradictory to the social role of the city and property expressed in the Federal Constitution of  1988 and in the City Statute. It proposes to regularize “enclosed” communities (housing developments and/or gated communities) based on articles that define specific-interest land regularization and restrictive-access housing developments. Real estate promoters act for the approval of those developments that allow them to increase their income, interests and profits. Urban popular movements struggle against the city of “feuds” and count on the action of the AGB, the Cities’ Council and the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office which shows the unconstitutionality of the Law Project.