Smart Cities e o direito à cidade: a tecnologia como instrumento de efetividade no contexto democrático

Abstract

Thinking about them is consequently thinking about the way their inhabitants relate to each other and to the environment, in such a way that understanding the conjecture of these spaces is essential to understanding human and social evolution itself. The dream of a smart and connected city has permeated the imagination of the urban population, in addition to public and social interests. The urban environment, in addition to being the stage for relationships between individuals, has also been the embodiment of human utopias, and this is how the urban environment is currently one of the main objects of study in different areas of knowledge, especially with regard to the materialization of the right to the city and the forms of its implementation in the Brazilian legal system. Thus, given the relevance that cities assume in the construction of different societies, also taking into account the changes caused by the intensification of the use of technological devices in urban solutions, the importance of understanding the impacts generated by Smarts Cities is demonstrated, for mainly through the conception of effectiveness of the right to the city and the insertion of this right in a democratic scenario. The present dissertation, therefore, aims to propose a reformulation of the way in which technology has been used in the context of city management, so that its merely marketing vision is overcome so that a Smart City ecosystem capable of placing the citizen as the main object of the formulation of external public policies for the transformation of urban space and the realization of the right to the city. To this end, an essentially descriptive-discursive, pure, exploratory and bibliographical research was developed, the study of which allows us to observe the dynamics of the formulation of smart cities and the way in which the urban environment has been changed, allowing the analysis of how urban challenges have been modified under this new reality. As a result, it was possible to glimpse that Smart Cities are environments that go far beyond the dystopias of science fiction and are shown to be true instruments capable of changing urban relations, being able, through a network of interconnected systems, to promote greater inclusion and contribute to reduce inequalities between city dwellers. To achieve this, it is necessary to seek a balance between the actions of the Public Power, citizens and the private sector, so that they are in line with the objectives to be achieved to achieve a fair and sustainable city for all its inhabitants.