Brasília Teimosa is a consolidated urban agglomeration in the center of the city of Recife, Brazil.
This case study tries to compose a narration in order to understand the processes that led a poor low income settlement to become the first community urbanized with the resources of the BNH (Banco Nacional da Habitação) through the participatory design project "projeto Teimosinho" back in 1982.
The economic and urban struggle of this community provided an experimental ground for the formation of the ZEIS (Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social) urban zoning law, being the first community in Brazil adopting this law.
The adoption of the ZEIS law as part of the Constitutional "Statute of the CIty" law back in 2002, highlights the importance of this coastal community.
Today's turbulances in brazilian society makes Brasília Teimosa again, a benchmark and a territory where the contradictions of Brazil's contemporary capitalist society is exposed.
