The political aspect of a Consortium Urban Operation

Abstract

This article discusses the political aspects of the legal and bureaucratic unfolding of the Consortium Urban Operation “ACLO” in Belo Horizonte. From a documentary research and interviews with relevant actors that allowed us to rescue, through oral history, elements of the urban policy development process in Belo Horizonte, we sought to understand the contradictions and conflicts that contributed to the interruption of the urban project. For this, it was necessary to understand the role of the public administration and its technical framework, the interests of economic agents and the legal framework of Urban Operation. It was possible to observe that its elaboration involved a political struggle and contradictions that the administration was not able to remedy, as a result of different assumptions and conceptions of the actors involved in the urban project.

Keywords:
Consortium Urban Operation; State; Urban management