The Presence of NGO Cidade in the Urban Planning of Porto Alegre
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The spread of neoliberal ideology in Western societies was accompanied revising the duties of the State to the transfer of a significant portion of functions that he had taken in the context of the Welfare State, to private organizations of public interest. Organizations such anointed, from the mid-1990s, with the oils of political autonomy and commitment to the causes of groups in vulnerable situations, and therefore as the most qualified to represent them in the public sphere. This article, which reports to the theoretical Habermas (1992, 2002, 2003) and in particular the notions of World of Life and World of System, analyzes the participation of NGOs Cidade in the public space built in the city of Porto Alegre as a function of changes taking place in the urban landscape given the requirements imposed by FIFA for the inclusion of Porto Alegre, as host city for World Cup matches Football 2014. The analysis of data collected through participant observation method and query the secondary sources reveals: that this NGO is failing to defend the interests of the people against the advancement of speculation, and that the state indirectly complicit in this process is being.
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