The UN conventions on environment and climate arise from the “need” to seek solutions to
social, environmental and economic crises experienced by different countries around the world.
Following the same idea, the UN-Habitat Convention bets on sustainable urban development
as an alternative to these crises in the scope of cities. However, the way this development has
been expressed in the transformation and in relation to the ways of living in cities is still
connected to the maintenance of capitalist and proprietary means of production, compromising
constituted social rights, especially the right to adequate housing in all its multiple possible
meanings of living with dignity. This dissertation, based on the observation of some forms of
extensive urbanization (MONTE-MÓR, 1994) on specific territorialities (LITTLE, 2002), has
as guiding questions to understand what are the consequences of the UN-Habitat guidelines for
sustainable urban development in policies management and land use planning in the
municipalities of Belém and Ananindeua? And how do territorial policies, informed by a global
logic of sustainable urban development, overlap with the quilombola territory of Abacatal,
affecting and influencing the community's social practices? Through this, the research aims to
analyze the consequences of the concept of sustainable urban development, as proposed by the
UN-Habitat, present in public policies for housing and land regularization, on the territory of
the Quilombola community of Abacatal (PA), reflecting on how urban operations linked to the
Master Plans, such as those related to housing projects, and to reurbanization processes leading
to infrastructure expansions such as the power transmission line, have been affecting daily life
in the territory of Abacatal. Through this, the research aims to analyze the consequences of the
concept of sustainable urban development, as proposed by the UN-Habitat, present in public
policies for housing and land regularization, on the territory of the Quilombola community of
Abacatal (PA), reflecting on how urban operations linked to the Managing Plans, such as those
related to housing projects, and to reurbanization processes leading to infrastructure expansions
such as the power transmission line, have been affecting daily life in the territory of Abacatal.
We searched through documentary research on UN-Habitat documents, master plans and
infrastructure projects in Belém, Marituba and Ananindeua, and also through participant
observation at the time of elaboration of the Study of the Quilombola Component (ECQ) for
the line , in the community, to observe this diversity of relationship with the (urban) land, which
is associated with the production of social, economic and political processes in the community,
as well as its social reproduction. It was found that there is an extensive urban area that conflicts
with the existence of the community insofar as it constitutes an instrumental relationship with
nature, even when for conservation reasons, maintaining an exclusive urban way of life, which
is reproduces about the lived space of the community. The research showed that territorial and
environmental management instruments, in addition to enabling extensive urbanization, also
legitimize environmental crimes that degrade the material base of production and social
reproduction of the community, which has non-instrumentalized relationships with nature. On
the other hand, a collective movement of construction of the sustainability of community life
was perceived, through the exercise of self-determination and autonomy to guarantee the
permanence and good life on earth, according to ancestral knowledge and the defense of the
territory of life, which collides with the sustainable urban agenda, present in state and municipal
strategies, legitimized by narratives and agendas of international organizations.
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