Smart and Sustainable Cities are municipalities that offer their inhabitants a better
quality of life due to technological, political and infrastructural arrangements,
symbolizing a current strategy for urban sustainability when the United Nations'
projections for the year 2050 point out that the urban population will represent
92% of the total in Brazil. Given the country's peculiarities regarding the
accelerated and unplanned urbanization process, as well as the remarkable
diversity that characterizes its municipalities, it is relevant to analyze how
managers and legislators have understood the characteristics and needs of smart
and sustainable cities in the country. In this way, the work aimed to map the
current legislation on the subject in municipalities with more than 50 thousand
inhabitants in Brazil and subsequent categorization and analysis of them. A total
of 125 norms were found, of which 59 were categorized as norms to promote
some of the dimensions of smart and sustainable cities, 44 as norms that deal
with guidelines for the implementation of the model of smart and sustainable
cities, 13 as norms that establish programs that reinforce the consolidation of
some of the dimensions, 08 as norms that regulate a smart and sustainable city,
strictly and 01 as the ratification of the contracts signed between the State of
Maranhão and China Brazil Xinnenghuan International Investment Co., Ltd CBSTeel, to building a smart and sustainable city. The analysis of the entire
content of these norms made it possible to prepare a text on the most relevant
aspects dealt with, as well as descriptive statistics and the main points of
similarities and divergences present in the normative contents. It was found that
in recent years, legislative proposals on the subject have become more common,
demonstrating an effort by federative units and municipalities to anticipate the
Union in the search for regulatory options to standardize principles and guidelines
in order to govern their programs and smart and sustainable city projects.
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