O risco geológico como justificativa para remoções forçadas no Aglomerado Santa Lúcia e na Vila Bandeirantes em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

Todays international, constitutional and infra-constitutional laws have advanced quite significantly towards the protection of human rights, existing, currently, stated protection of the right to adequate housing and the right to the city, to which we refer, in this study, as traditional right to the city, institutionalized right to the city and revolutionary right to the city, alternatively. The main concern of this research deals with, especially, the meanings of right to the city in dispute and the potential violation to that right that forced removal based in geological risk represent. This concern becomes even more serious when we can verify how the risk is mapped and classified in both favelas studied, Vila Bandeirantes and Aglomerado Santa Lúcia, and how the reassessments are made subsequently. Public policies in urban renewal, mainly through Vila Viva, have merely changed, in this sense, towards the practices adopted at the time of the Cidade de Minas inauguration. This study leads, foremost, with the definitions of right to the city more closely of being accomplished as a revolutionary right, even if restricted to urban reform.