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Inequality and the commodification of urban life: challenges to sustainable development in contemporary Brazil

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  • Jose Ricardo Barbosa Goncalves
  • Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi

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This paper presents a discussion about the unequal nature of the transformations in urban living conditions resulting from the prevailing neoliberal economic model in Brazil. In a historical perspective, it suggests that the social organisation in urban areas has been increasingly subordinated to the logic of the financial capital. As a result, housing markets and infrastructure services have been completely transformed into a locus of money and land commodification. In the current process of urban expansion, inequalities have been strengthened within cities overwhelmed by violence.

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  • Jose Ricardo Barbosa Goncalves & Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, 2010. "Inequality and the commodification of urban life: challenges to sustainable development in contemporary Brazil," International Journal of Green Economics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(2), pages 134-144.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgrec:v:4:y:2010:i:2:p:134-144
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