TY - SER AU - Guimaraes Gouvea,Ronaldo TI - Diretrizes para a gestão metropolitana no Brasil PY - 2009/// CY - Santiago, Chile PB - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile KW - AREAS METROPOLITANAS KW - Políticas Públicas KW - PLANIFICACION URBANA KW - PolÌticas Públicas N1 - En: EURE (Santiago), abril. 2009, vol.35, no.104, p. 47-76. ISSN 0250-7161; MARQUEZ, Francisca. Imaginarios urbanos en el Gran Santiago: huellas de una metamorfosis. EURE (Santiago), ago. 2007, vol.33, no.99, p.79-88. ISSN 0250-7161 N2 - Brazilian Metropolitan Regions lack the institutionalized arrangements for the formulation, implementation and control of public policies involving multiple municipalities, particularly policies with strategic elements that cannot be resolved within municipal boundaries, such as urban development, transport and environment. This paper researches the possibilities for creating a metropolitan municipality, understood as a specific urban reality that is distinct from the traditional municipality and the spatial fragmentation of mega municipalities which, given their political and economic importance, have exercised a disaggregating role in the metropolitan space. These possibilities are understood as interventions that, in spite of their political and technical complexities and their difficult implementation, can contribute to resolving two of the principal obstacles to Brazilian metropolitan management: a rigid and monolithic perception of municipal autonomy - a perception that is still widely promoted in the country - and asymmetry in power relations generated by the existence of mega municipalities in almost all the Metropolitan Regions ER -