FROM PUBLIC URBAN VOID TO PRIVATE FINANCING: HOW UFRJ ASSETS WILL RESPOND TO THE FINANCIAL CHAOS

Abstract

The way to manage real estate has been reconfiguring since the 1990’s through a financialization process that currently results in the transformation of its original nature and repercussions on the production of urban space. The perspective of this study starts from the analysis that real estate idleness corresponds to one of the urban phenomena that stimulate this land treatment, and at the same time, it is observed the growing possibility of the real estate market to economically exploit an idle and valued slice of the urban fabric, which means that is, the heritage of federal universities. As an example of this, this study discusses the imminent financialization of the patrimony of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, recently published by bidding notice of the National Bank of Economic and Social Development. Thus, based on an empirical analysis, a brief but thought-provoking case study of the management of the heritage of that university is carried out, correlating its idle properties with the problem initially pointed out.