Matrizes urbanas sustentáveis

um paralelo entre a cidade burguesa e a cidade de elite

Abstract

This paper makes a comparison between bourgeois town and elite town as a theoretical and conceptual reference to comprehend the contrast connected to urban growth in central and peripheral countries. In this case the analyze points to the different ways of insertion about the environmental problems in bourgeois and elite societies, to interpret the role performed by the dominant classes in the formation of urban growth patterns. Thus, based on hindered accumulation theory, bourgeois and elite are hegemonic groups which imply different levels of power and intern domination. Under the environmental problems rise in the cities, New Urbanism emerges as an urban model which reacts against negative implication brought by suburbs, without deny the historical structure of spatial organization in the United States. In Brazil, the sustainable real state ventures spreading expresses modernized designs which overlap incompletely in the city, due to they do not solve the structural antagonisms of domination from an archaic sector. The spatial order foundation here based on land access and State mechanisms control by a small elite.