Abstract
Metropolitan areas started to develop in Brazil during in the 1970s. The Federal Constitution of 1988 made it possible for the states, by means of a complementary law, to organize their metropolitan areas into clusters of municipalities with contiguous borders and this culminated in the creation of regions characterized by multiple and different criteria. However, the Statute of the Metropolis was approved in January 2015 with the purpose of establishing guidelines for the planning, management and implementation of public functions of common interest to metropolitan areas and urban agglomerations. This article, which is descriptive in nature and based on bibliographical data, aims to reflect on the implementation of the Law 13,089/2015, a recent governance tool applied to metropolitan areas, based on the premise that the existing federal structure has not yet incorporated the institutionality of these regions. We concluded that the instruments for integration of metropolitan areas are aligned with a continuous process of promoting effective metropolitan management based on mutual responsibilities.
Keywords:
Governance; Metropolis; Metropolitan region; Law nº 13,089/2015; Integration instrument