ABSTRACT: Innovations that enable citizen participation in planning and city management have been responsible for a revolution of the relationship with the environment. It is reflects in urban models which until recently were considered solutions for a good planning, as the Transport Oriented Development (TOD) that uses urban development concepts, integrating land use with transport system. This article aims to examine which manner the principles of the TOD are inserted in a context in which the collaborative economy, the informal urbanism, micro transit, energy generation and urban farming are prominent themes. This research is justified by the need to understand what should be done in planning terms and management in order to maximize the positive impacts and minimize the negatives innovations consequents. Therefore, this work presents successful experiences about the topics mentioned in cities inside and outside Brazil. It has been found that governance is one of the biggest challenges in the structuring of municipal management, and the institutional flexibility is a premise to relationship of several factors that are involved in the construction of the productive city productive. Urban development models will have to reinvent themselves, because they cannot ignore the strength of these innovations.
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