Urban legislation in Latin America: The compared experiences of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of Ecuador
and the National Assembly of Ecuador, since the year 2011
had promoted the development of the Organic Law of
Spatial Planning, Use and Management of Land (LOOTUS in
Spanish), which was approved by the legislative organ
(National Assembly) in May of 2016. The LOOTUS seeks to
establish the guiding principles and general rules that will
guide the exercise of the competencies of spatial planning,
use and management of rural and urban land in Ecuador.
On the other hand, both Colombia and Brazil in the year 1997
and 2001 respectively, issued national legislations with similar
objectives as the Ecuadorian LOOTUS. In Colombia, the “388
Law” was issued with the objective of establishing the
mechanisms that promote the equitable and rational use of
land, the preservation of the ecological areas, disaster
prevention and efficient urban intervention; on the other
hand,
The Brazilian “City Statute” was the culmination of several
legal reforms in the urban scope in which the Right to a
sustainable city was recognized. In this context, and with the
objective of promoting the exchange of experiences
regarding the implementation of urban legislation and land
management in Latin America and to encourage the learning
process among stakeholders involved in the implementation
of urban legislation this Networking Event will present a
comparison between the implementation process of urban
legislation that Brazil and Colombia had experienced through the presentation of different
aspects of both Colombia and Brazil´s achievements and
shortcomings in the application their urban legislation and by
analyzing the potentialities and challenges of the Ecuadorian
Land Law.