A contribuição de melhoria como ferramenta de desenvolvimento sócio-espacial: aplicabilidade à cidade de Palmas-TO

Abstract

Brazilian cities increasingly assume the role of territorial policy structuring element in country's development. Their populational as well as spatial growth have increased demands for improvement and urban infrastructure investiments. However, what can be observed is that the complexity of urban spaces, typical of the development model traditionally known as Urban Development, is not able to overcome and, in many cases, may even accentuate social problems related to specific places in cities, such as investment concentration in certain city areas instead of peripheral ones, yet emphasizing socio-spatial segregation. Thus, this research seeks to explore the Improvement Contribution tax-policy instrument, which is contained in Brazilian legislation for more than eighty years, not only as a tool for raising funds, through the real estate valuation recovery caused by improvement implementation and works built by the government in search of greater financial autonomy of Brazilian cities to foment investments, but also as an element that leads to Socio-spatial Development model, explored by Marcelo Lopes de Souza in his study. To do so, after analyzing the instrument under study, the only Improvement Contribution applying experience in Palmas / TO (Quadra ARSE 41) was used to verify the relations between the instrument, its institutional design, application repercussion and the alternative urban space development model proposed by Souza.