The production of urban space in Brazil is historically marked by exclusionary policies and urban spoliation, which have intensified with the rise of neoliberal policies and rationality. We point here to an emptying of the political sense of citizenship through four main factors. These are: the neoliberal dismantling (or reordering) of the State and the shrinking of the public sphere; the increasing reach of neoliberal subjectivity; the Brazilian historical-political context; and the emptying of public spaces. The neoliberal logic of urban management renders invisible historically excluded portions of society, alienating it as a whole; it removes from the reach of vision and experience what is not framed in the aesthetic information it wants to pass on. This article aims to show the role of neoliberal rationality in the emptying and hiding of conflicts, and to broaden the debates about the directions currently outlined by the corporate management mode of public powers in Brazil, especially in metropolises, as well as to propose a debate about the effects of this type of management in the continuous construction of the city and of citizenship.
