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Topic:Urban Policy
While unable to solve all of a country’s problems, progressive urban policy is nonetheless one effective way of addressing poverty and inequality. Brazil, a country notorious for its spatially segregated cities and concentration of wealth and power, is a telling case study not only for lessons on how to improve the quality of life of city dwellers through urban policy and planning but also for lessons on how such instruments can backfire or otherwise cause unintended consequences.
Moreover, crime and violence often undermine well-intentioned policy initiatives. Brazil, like much of Latin America, has seen increased crime and violence in its larger metropolises, which undercuts and challenges the reach of government even in the most highly developed regions of the country.
For a developing country like Brazil, which has seen rapid urbanization over the last decades, the response to these problems will have an important impact on the future of the nation’s quality of democracy and economic development. The Brazil Institute has worked in conjunction with the Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project to bring attention to these concerns in Brazil and this section highlights the conferences and reports that are the fruits of this collaboration.
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News
Special Reports
Democracy and The City:
Assessing Urban Policy in Brazil
 A joint report published by the Brazil Institute and the Comparative Urban Studies Project (CUSP). Written by Daniel Nogueira Budny, former program assistant for the Brazil Institute, the report focuses on how participatory requirements in Brazil’s City Statute has reshaped the way urban policy is formulated. Click here to download this publication.
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Events
Lessons in Governance from Urban Brazil
Tuesday, June 17 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Tim Campbell, Chairman, Urban Age Institute; Eduardo Rojas, Principal Housing and Urban Development Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank; Ivani Vassoler, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York, Fredonia
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Innovations in Urban Development: Lessons from Brazil
Thursday, May 17 2007, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Teresa Caldeira, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley; Marcia Leite Arieira,
Senior Social Development Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank; Bryan McCann, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Moderator: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Urban Crime and Violence
Wednesday, March 21 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Diane Davis, Professor of Political Sociology, Associate Dean, School of
Architecture and Planning, MIT; Rubem Fernandes, Anthropologist and Director of Viva Rio; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Caroline Moser,
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Washington, DC.
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Urban Crime and Violence in Brazil: Combating Citizens’ Sense of Insecurity
Friday, April 28 2006, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Claudio Beato, Director, Center for Crime and Public Safety Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Bernice Van Bronkhorst, Urban Social Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, the World Bank; Luis Bitencourt, Professor, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; Commentator, John D French, Associate Professor of History, Duke University
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Brazil’s HIV/AIDS Program as a Model: Strategies for Combating Other Epidemics
Monday, December 12 2005, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
A conference with Jorge Bermudez, Chief, Essential Medicines, Vaccines, and Health Technologies Unit, Pan American Health Organization
Eduardo J. Gómez, Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
Maureen Lewis, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
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Brazil Institute
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: brazil@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4030
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