ABSTRACT
Urbanization became a condition, a mean and a product of capitalism realization in modern times, establishing specific institutional, political and administrative arrangements that provide objective inequalities to the city. It is, thus, imperative to consider the decisions, messages and codes that are related to hegemonic groups acting at different scales in the city by expropriating social groups of their living spaces and conforming ghettoes, urban peripheries and favelas. This chapter seeks to discuss the global capital discourses and practices vis-à-vis local poor communities. It works with the livability concepts presented in Wagner and Caves (2012) to argue that the entrepreneurial city espoused by neoliberal administrations fully embraces the livability ideal, but its practices deepen inequalities in segregated cities, contributing to environmental, social and economic unsustainability. Brazilian favelas, on the other hand, answer to this pervasive segregation process and insert themselves in the larger society considering their residents as subjects of rights, pointing to a full-fledged and inclusive livability.
