O Porto Carioca e a Renda da Terra:

The Porto Maravilha Project, currently underway in the port area of Rio de Janeiro, is one of the most striking expressions of contemporary strategic planning or neoliberalism in Brazil. This article aims to understand this initiative in light of the theory of land rent, with the objective of identifying the different forms through which land rent can be observed within the scope of the subject. Thus, it returns to fundamental categories of Marxist thought to define the three forms of land rent conceptualized by Marx (2017) and revisited by Harvey (2005; 2015). The Porto Maravilha Project is framed as a process that enhances the generation and extraction of land rent in the urban space of Rio de Janeiro. However, ultimately, none of the three forms of rent—differential, absolute, and monopoly—manifest themselves purely in the concrete plan.