DESARTICULAÇÕES ENTRE POLÍTICAS URBANAS E INVESTIMENTOS EM CIDADES: contratação do PAC paraense mismatches between urban policies and investments in cities: the negotiation of PAC in Pará State, Brazil

Abstract

This article discusses the correspondence between Urban Development National Policy (PNDU) declared aims and the rationality of Acceleration of Growth Program (PAC) investments, directed to urban and social infrastructure. It unfolds from ideas such as Brazilian cities speciÞ cities, the participative formulation of urban policies and its operation through a social bank, and the discussion of economic roles of housing and urban infrastructure and its adoption as a tool for development in Brazil. It takes a real case, Para State Government contracts, to present contradictions and challenges of PAC’s Þ rst generation of investments, and after four years from the beginning of the process, it suggests assessments, the need of approaching investment’s and PNDU’s conceptions, and an agenda with coverage ranging from trends related to insertion of Brazilian cities in their regional contexts, up to changes in operation strategies of the urban policies under analysis.