Inequality and the commodification of urban life: challenges to sustainable development in contemporary Brazil Online publication date: Thu, 23-Sep-2010
by Jose Ricardo Barbosa Goncalves, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi
International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2010
Abstract: This paper presents a discussion about the unequal nature of the transformations in urban living conditions resulting from the prevailing neoliberal economic model in Brazil. In a historical perspective, it suggests that the social organisation in urban areas has been increasingly subordinated to the logic of the financial capital. As a result, housing markets and infrastructure services have been completely transformed into a locus of money and land commodification. In the current process of urban expansion, inequalities have been strengthened within cities overwhelmed by violence.
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