The Fonavi Housing Complexes in the Construction of Urban Territory

Abstract

This article analyzes the Fonavi housing policy at a housing complex and the ways that this policy constructs and constructed spaces within urban regions. It begins by describing the history of this construction and the occupational trajectories of those who inhabit it, in terms of construction of territoriality. It then untangles the modes of participation at its interior and the institutional spaces on which it counts. It places particular emphasis on describing and analyzing one of the institutions, the consortiums, as a space for administration of the common. It then analyzes the power relations that are constructed at the interior of the neighborhood, which allows reading a
heterogeneity of spaces and places.