ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY: NEW VIEWS ON URBAN PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The approach on economic development under the perspective of urban evolution allows to see the effects of spacial distribution of production under country´s economy. Many factors can make of some cities the center of development, taking from the others resources and work force. The intrepreneurship comes up when regional differences are admitted and the domination can open space to mutual dependence, when places earn conditions to explore their potentialities and promote the developpement of technological base interprises. The union of interests around a production focus is the main factor to push development because it is the only way that small cities have to attract private investments, througt the birth of  business incubator. The Constitution of 1988 and the “Estatuto da Cidade, 2001, the Brazilian State gave its own interpretation about urban politics, creating partnerships between the civil society and local public power, in a way of making this agents capable to compose a new urban politic, which can promote the access for fundamental rights for all groups of society, and create economical growth through technological inovation.This theoretical essey intends to clear up how the brazilian urban development model can promote the integration of small cities in national and international markets and contribute to create more richness to the country.