De las realizaciones de los IAPs al fin de las utopías: Río de Janeiro y São Paulo (1930-1970)

Abstract

The article seeks to understand the relationship between public housing and social thought on the urban question in Brazil. The main role of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo is recognized in this process. The first part pres-ents the beginning of a developmentalist thought, identified in the Vargas period, whose exemplary manifestation would be the Realengo housing complex (1938-1943) built in Rio de Janeiro. Next, the permanence of this development policy is examined in São Paulo, through the housing complex Cecap (1967-1972). In our analysis of the peripheral urbanization of the metropolis of São Paulo –characterized by the lack of urban services and the precariousness of built structures–, we take note of the ruptures that a criticism of public action and its developmentalist ideology would provoke in social thought. This work aims to locate these critiques within a historical perspective, considering that, from the 1970s ownard, these insights would provide a reading of the urban that remains valid to this day.