Syndicated urban operations as a tool for promoting healthy urban environment

Abstract

The article 182 of Federal Constitution of Brazil establishes that urban policy, a municipalities execution competence, aims to observance of social functions of the city, ensuring the population need’s and the basic rights of citizens, especially the well-being of the local residents. Today, the urban well-being includes the social and the infrastructure improvements and environment protection. Therefore, the Federal Law n. 10.257, July 10^th 2001, provides the consociate urban operation as the instrument that allows the participative and joint action between the local government and the citizens, equating the urban development with the right to an ecologically balanced environment, facing the problems directly and promoting the citizenship.