Panorama Brasileiro da legislação aplicada às cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis

Abstract

Smart and Sustainable Cities are municipalities that offer their inhabitants a better quality of life due to technological, political and infrastructural arrangements, symbolizing a current strategy for urban sustainability when the United Nations' projections for the year 2050 point out that the urban population will represent 92% of the total in Brazil. Given the country's peculiarities regarding the accelerated and unplanned urbanization process, as well as the remarkable diversity that characterizes its municipalities, it is relevant to analyze how managers and legislators have understood the characteristics and needs of smart and sustainable cities in the country. In this way, the work aimed to map the current legislation on the subject in municipalities with more than 50 thousand inhabitants in Brazil and subsequent categorization and analysis of them. A total of 125 norms were found, of which 59 were categorized as norms to promote some of the dimensions of smart and sustainable cities, 44 as norms that deal with guidelines for the implementation of the model of smart and sustainable cities, 13 as norms that establish programs that reinforce the consolidation of some of the dimensions, 08 as norms that regulate a smart and sustainable city, strictly and 01 as the ratification of the contracts signed between the State of Maranhão and China Brazil Xinnenghuan International Investment Co., Ltd CBSTeel, to building a smart and sustainable city. The analysis of the entire content of these norms made it possible to prepare a text on the most relevant aspects dealt with, as well as descriptive statistics and the main points of similarities and divergences present in the normative contents. It was found that in recent years, legislative proposals on the subject have become more common, demonstrating an effort by federative units and municipalities to anticipate the Union in the search for regulatory options to standardize principles and guidelines in order to govern their programs and smart and sustainable city projects.