The City Statute (Portuguese: Estatuto da Cidade) is a federal law (Law 10.257) passed in Brazil in 2001 that builds on the Federal Constitution of Brazil to create a new legal-urban order to provide land access and equity in large urban cities.
[1] [2] It is premised on the idea of the Right to the city and emerged as a result of many years of popular struggle.
The first is to ensure that the 'social function' of urban land and buildings is put before their commercial value.
This has been defined as "a path to plan, produce, operate and govern cities subject to social control and participation.
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