ABSTRACT

The population contingent in urban environments has grown rapidly, and forecasts for the future suggest that by 2050 this urban concentration will reach the level of 66% of the world’s population. This chapter analyzes the Brazilian reality with regard to the federalism of cooperation. This context presents the challenges of overcoming the dichotomy between local/regional interest, and implementing metropolitan governance, as a way of sharing experience, seeking, and encouraging solutions to the realization of the right to the city. The metropolis has intense economic potential and to the same extent many problems caused by externalities. Therefore, in order to achieve harmony and balance in sustainable development, it is urgently necessary to search for ways to solve problems of common interest. The New Urban Agenda calls for and imposes the construction and adoption of a shared management of services of common interest between States and municipalities, for the achievement of sustainable development.