Legal e legítimo: a legislação interna de uma comunidade marginal - estudo de caso do processo de reurbanização, pelo poder público, da Favela de Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The issue of the housing deficit in large Brazilian cities is a subject much discussed, both by researchers and by the public power. The fact that favelas are a universalized phenomenon in Brazilian cities led the State to various interventions to eradicate them from the urban setting. A large mass of citizens settled in the favelas, suffered throughout their history a total abandonment by the public power, eventually creating themselves real urban microcosms, with its own rules, a real internal legislation, that regulates a particular form of survival to the margin of the legal city, allowing its existence and reproduction. This way of living according to their values ​​gives these communities a specific identity that we intend to address in this study. The purpose of the proposed case study is to raise these rules from the discussion of the redevelopment project carried out in the Favela of Dona Marta, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.