标题:Critical commentary: urban growth and access to opportunities: A challenge for Latin America from the ADC-Development Bank of Latin America / Comentário crítico: Crescimento urbano e acesso a oportunidades: um desafio para a América Latina do ADC - Banco de Desenvolvimento da América Latina
摘要:This essay discusses, based on a critical reading of the argumentative lines of the Urban growth and Access to opportunities: a challenge for Latin America Report. In the first place, the technical logics of the treatment of urban issues in Latin America, whose emphasis in quantitative variables ignores the socio-spatial contradictions derived from the existing intense class conflicts over the region. In the second place, it highlights that the discourse of development fostered by the ADC aims at generating efficient institutional arrangements, that is why the attention is directed to create “sustainable urban governance schemes” and not to generate political and economic strategies intended to unequal distribution of wealth in the region. In the third place, it is suggested in this comment, that under the protection of contemporary dynamics of capital, new instruments of public policies which promote financing the market of ground and housing are legitimized, while the need to integrate urban communities in the decision–making process is preached.
关键词:Banco de Desenvolvimento da América Latina; Crescimento urbano; Contradições socioespaciais; Conflitos de classe; Desenvolvimento; Governança metropolitana;