In the article Investments and Public-Private Partnerships: the neoliberal urbanization of the Olympic City, Larissa Lacerda, Mariana Werneck, Orlando Alves dos Santos Jr. and Patrícia Novaes analyze the planned investments in preparing the Olympic Games. The authors stress that public participation exceeds private participation in the investments for the 2016 Olympics, contrary to what has been disclosed by the city government of Rio de Janeiro.
Investments and Public-Private Partnerships: the neoliberal urbanization of the Olympic City
Focusing on an analysis of the investments made in the event, the main argument of this paper is that the organization of the Olympic Games has served as a vehicle to foster a new cycle of neoliberal commodification of the city of Rio de Janeiro, expressed in a project of urban renewal of specific areas and the promotion of new institutional management structures based on Public-Private Partnerships – PPPs.
To develop this discussion, the paper is organized into three sections. The first analyzes the planned investments in preparing the Olympic Games, demonstrating that public participation in investments for the 2016 Olympics exceed private participation, contrary to what has been publicized by the municipal government of Rio de Janeiro.
The following section analyzes how the investments are spatially distributed, pointing to a process of urban renewal focused on three purposes: enhancing the centrality of the South Zone; revitalizing the centrality of the port district, considered decayed; and creating a new centrality in Barra da Tijuca. All cases involve processes of elitization and gentrification, alongside the removal of lower classes.
Finally, the paper discusses the ways in which this process of urban renewal involves the adoption and dissemination of a new pattern of neoliberal entrepreneurial governance, founded on the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), transferring to the private sector the management of public facilities and spaces.
Dossier What Is at Stake in these Games? 2016 Olympics and the Commodification of the City of Rio de Janeiro.
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