The new and medium-sized city of Palmas, capital designed for the state of Tocantins in 1989,
presents urban problems typical of large Brazilian capitalist cities, ranging from socio-spatial
segregation and high real estate speculation illegal use and occupation even of real estate units,
with deviations in destination, extrapolations of coefficient of use and appropriation of public
spaces. It was up to this master's research to reflect on how the Palmas’s Building Code, an
instrument of control and enforcement of the municipal Urban Policy, contributed to the space
urban production process. In the light of the theory of social production of space and under the
hypothesis that there is a clash between what is imposed by the building code (planning) and
what exists (produced) in the Palmas urban space. Not generated after a long historical process
nor due to the lack of projects, plans and urban legislation, but due to illegal use and occupation,
due to buildings that pay little attention to previously established planning. To this end, the
work methodology is based on a qualitative approach, which articulates the theoretical-
conceptual foundation, document analysis and field survey, as well as interviews with
professionals working in the area in order to achieve the objectives of the work. The analysis
allowed verifying if the Palmas Building Code is the foundation of the municipal urban policy
since the conception of the city and brought since the first substitution, taking of control and
inspection that could effect the urban policy in the sense of fulfilling the social function of the
private property and the city itself. On the other hand, the instrument is weakened by parallel
laws that allow the licensing of buildings even in disagreement with the code and weakened in
the analysis of medium and large-sized and complex developments, since there is no regulation
for studying the impact of the surroundings, for example. In this way, Palmas has produced a
conflicting urban space, engendered mainly by biological and speculative interests of isolated
groups to the detriment of the collective that, by intervening in the urban, reverberate in the
way of living, working and socializing of its inhabitants.
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