Abstract
Abstract The aim of the current article is to think over economic development and urban infrastructure propositions by Salvador 360 Strategic Plan from 2017, which was elaborated by the municipal government. The plan allows analyzing the neoliberal city production approach which, despite its modernizing profile, is just an update of old models that have great potential to worsen structural socio-spatial segregation issues. Neoliberalism, urban spoliation, land value and gentrification are key concepts in this article. Neil Brenner, Nick Theodore, Jamie Peck, David Harvey, Lúcio Kowarick, Carlos Vainer and Inaiá de Carvalho are its main theoretical references. The methodology addresses documental analysis, as well as the analysis of secondary data from official sources (DIEESE and IBGE) and digital platforms analysis (AirBnB website). Based on the results, Salvador 360 Strategic Plan deepens eviction processes experienced by the poor population in the city’s central zones and increases the appropriation of private urban added value and service provision concentration, within a political setback context. This process can aggravate urban environment precariousness and quality of life in the city.
Highlights
Life in big cities has been associated with modernization, and with segregation, violence and environmental degradation
Let’s formulate the question guiding the current study: what are the economic and social consequences of implementing Salvador 360 Strategic Plan, nowadays, by taking into account the current urban poverty amplification, intensified gentrification process, private appropriation of the urban added value, broad offer of services and democratic setback contexts? We address the thesis that, based on the current neoliberalization and post-neoliberalization scenario, as it happened in cities such as Barcelona, several Brazilian state capitals and Latin American cities, Salvador 360 Strategic Plan encourages investments in sectors of the highest classes’ circuits and, selectively, in territories and niches of the so-called popular economy
The analysis applied to Salvador 360 Program allows concluding that there are several economic and social consequences of Salvador 360 Strategic Plan implementation
Summary
Life in big cities has been associated with modernization, and with segregation, violence and environmental degradation. We address the thesis that, based on the current neoliberalization and post-neoliberalization scenario, as it happened in cities such as Barcelona, several Brazilian state capitals and Latin American cities, Salvador 360 Strategic Plan encourages investments in sectors of the highest classes’ circuits and, selectively, in territories and niches of the so-called popular economy This process deepens the process to take the poor populations away from the downtown areas in order to increase the appropriation of urban added value and the concentration of service supplying within a context of political setback. The aforementioned axes consist in a set of propositions in the following fields: (a) business; (b) investments; (c) economic inclusion; (d) creative city; (e) intelligent city; (f) sustainable city; (g) simplicity and (h) Historical zone We will analyze their contents in order to check whether the suggested actions up-date the segregating city production process by taking the poor population away from the downtown areas and broadening urban added value appropriation and service offer concentration – with an after neoliberalization context. In Salvador, like what happens in other cities, gentrification is closely associated with income, as well as with race and ethnicity
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