The expansion of the macrometropolis and the creation of new metropolitan regions: a new trend for institutional metropolization in the state of São Paulo?

Abstract The article evaluates São Paulo’s metropolitan management from 2010 onwards, in light of the state government’s regulation of new metropolitan regions and the consolidation of the São Paulo macrometropolis as a regional scale of planning. The asymmetries of the Brazilian federalism concerning the conflictive and competitive character of intergovernmental relations have been one of the main obstacles to the consolidation of the metropolitan management. With the Metropolis Statute, which came into force in 2015, the new federal legislation reinforces the necessary reflection on the trends of institutional metropolization, which, in the case of São Paulo, has not yet succeeded in overcoming the persistent socio-spatial inequalities expressed in the urban-metropolitan tissue.

摘要 本文结合巴西州政府对新型都会区的规制政策，以及圣保罗大都市区（macrometropolis）作为规划区域尺度的整合进程，对2010年以来圣保罗都会区的治理状况展开评估。巴西联邦制所存在的非对称性，以及由此衍生的政府间关系的冲突性与竞争性特征，长期以来都是阻碍都会区治理整合的核心障碍之一。2015年正式施行的《都会区法案（Metropolis Statute）》作为全新的联邦层面立法，进一步强化了学界对制度性都会化趋势的必要反思；而就圣保罗地区而言，当前仍未能克服持续存在的社会空间不平等问题，这类不平等在城市-都会区的空间肌理中仍有显著体现。