Brazilian cities increasingly assume the role of territorial policy structuring
element in country's development. Their populational as well as spatial growth have
increased demands for improvement and urban infrastructure investiments. However,
what can be observed is that the complexity of urban spaces, typical of the development
model traditionally known as Urban Development, is not able to overcome and, in many
cases, may even accentuate social problems related to specific places in cities, such as
investment concentration in certain city areas instead of peripheral ones, yet
emphasizing socio-spatial segregation. Thus, this research seeks to explore the
Improvement Contribution tax-policy instrument, which is contained in Brazilian
legislation for more than eighty years, not only as a tool for raising funds, through the
real estate valuation recovery caused by improvement implementation and works built
by the government in search of greater financial autonomy of Brazilian cities to foment
investments, but also as an element that leads to Socio-spatial Development model,
explored by Marcelo Lopes de Souza in his study. To do so, after analyzing the
instrument under study, the only Improvement Contribution applying experience in
Palmas / TO (Quadra ARSE 41) was used to verify the relations between the
instrument, its institutional design, application repercussion and the alternative urban
space development model proposed by Souza.
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