Smart and Sustainable Cities: The Main Guidelines of City Statute for Increasing the Intelligence of Brazilian Cities

Evandro Gonzalez Lima,Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares,Ahmed W. A. Hammad,Christine Kowal Chinelli,Elaine Garrido Vazquez,Andre Luis Azevedo Guedes,Assed Naked Haddad

doi:10.3390/su12031025

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The regulation of urban property use is a fundamental instrument for the development of cities. However, most of the norms that set general guidelines for urban policy predate the transformations that the smart city concept has brought about in the way cities are appropriated and perceived by society, and even today, studies on how these regulations collaborate to make cities smarter and more sustainable. This work contributes to filling this gap by investigating the main guidelines of the Brazilian City Statute that have the greatest potential to contribute to having smarter and more sustainable Brazilian cities. To prioritize the sixteen guidelines of the City Statute, the methodology used consisted of a survey carried out with professionals working in the concerned field. The results show that the sixteen guidelines were evaluated as important for increasing the intelligence of cities, of which five were evaluated as having the most priority, these five were related to the governance of cities. Considering the scarcity of resources in Brazilian cities, these five guidelines contribute so that municipal governments can direct their efforts towards what has the most priority.

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Regulation of urban property use has been a fundamental instrument for cities to develop considering the collective good, the welfare of citizens and sustainable development
Each of these laws have particularities arising from each country’s institutional system, there is a striking similarity between them. They all establish a hierarchical system of territorial ordering, whereby the smaller scale plans detail the larger ones. Each of these plans are thoroughly described in terms of their content, approval and updating, degree of detail and legal effectiveness [5]
Regulation of urban property use has been a fundamental instrument for cities to develop, considering the collective good, the welfare of citizens and sustainable development

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Regulation of urban property use has been a fundamental instrument for cities to develop considering the collective good, the welfare of citizens and sustainable development. The catastrophic London fire of 1666 transformed society’s understanding of why individual property rights should, to some degree, be subject to the greatest public interest when common challenges are faced [3] Episodes such as this have triggered important discussions about the extent to which private rights and the private sector should be regulated, the government’s competence to direct market forces, the appropriate role of municipal, state and federal agencies in land use and on appropriate legal regulatory techniques that government should employ to protect the public interest [2]. Each of these plans are thoroughly described in terms of their content, approval and updating, degree of detail and legal effectiveness [5]

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