Currently, a massive intervention in the production of urban policy is happening in Brazil to enforce the mandates of a remarkable federal law called Estatuto da Cidade - City Statute. The recent production and implementation of urban policies in Brazil has meant a shift in the paradigm of urban planning as well as a reconfiguration of the ways in which spatial inequality becomes reproduced and legislated. It has also meant the creation of new techniques of government and new modes of practice for both the state and its citizens. Analyzing these techniques and the new ways of regulating urban space, the talk sheds light on the ways in which democracy and neoliberalism mutually constitute each other.