Políticas urbanas: notas aproximativas para a pesquisa avaliativa

Abstract

The growing interest in evaluative research on urban policy in Brazil is due, in particular, to two major movements. The first refers to a predominantly urban country that carries serious physical-environmental and socioeconomic distortions in meeting the basic needs of the inhabitants. The second concerns the requirement of improving mechanisms of planning and management of cities, leading to concerns about the quality, efficiency and relevance of programs and projects. Based on a review of the major lines of research on the topic, this paper aims to highlight some approximate notes on the most relevant aspects of the evaluation study of urban politics. In this sense, evaluation is seen here as discursively constructed in research practice. The focus is on the classification of systemic urban policies, theoretical influences, temporality and historical narrative, territorialisation and changes of scales and methods, criteria and indicators.