Globalização e política urbana: as agências multilaterais e o Prosamim - Programa Social e Ambiental dos Igarapés de Manaus

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of global changes and their implications in the processes of urbanization, whose title is "Globalization and Urban Policy: The Multilateral agencies and PROSAMIM - Social and EnvironmentaAl Program of Manaus". It evences the recent urban revitalization occurred in Manaus – Am, from public policy heave by the State Government with funding from the Interamerican Development Bank - IDB. It starts from the principle that cities have always been the scene of great deeds, after the advent of mercantilism and later with industrialization process, they have become indispensable to the advancement of competitive capitalism. The social sciences have been analyzing their constant changes and their implications in the social context of individuals, therefore, they became the object of profound analyzes the role assigned to cities and its intrinsic relationship with the advent of capitalism in motion that, in the current context, the global configuration makes the States become competitors in the race for foreign investment in their territories, therefore, they should development a positive image of the city in Manaus given a major watersheds occupied by stilts that in various streams became stage of government actions in urban requalification process and environmental revitalization of the streams. These urban reforms converge with Michalet (2002) the territories are polarized with attractiveness aimed at integration of the global economy. To perform this work we adopted the methodology of qualitative research, including primary and secondary data seeking to understand the PROSAMIM and its relationship with urban policies adopted by the Bank, in other words, a policy of structural urban setting of the city of Manaus to stay appealing to processes triggered by globalization. Among the results presented, emerged new cityscapes and landscapes in the city of Manaus as well as new contexts conducive to property investment in the capital of Amazonas State.