“Food trucks”, “food bikes” e “food carts”: instrumentos de promoção da função social da cidade

Abstract

The significant changes that occur in urban spaces favor the creation and reformulation of values of social, economic and cultural models, which are presented as a tool to accompany the changes resulting from the urban development policy. In this context, the commercialization of food on wheels, also known as food trucks, food bikes and food carts, which arise from the informal commerce, the so-called itinerant merchant, such as the gourmetization and the adaptation of vehicles to operate as real mobile kitchens contributing to the promotion of the social function of the city, which motivates and leads the study on the aspects related to this hypothesis, focus of the provisions presented here. The present study presents as social innovation theme through the sale of food in the streets on wheels and its reflexes in the ordering, use and occupation of the soil in the cities. The main objective of this work is to demonstrate that the installation of food trucks, food bikes and food carts in squares and in empty urban spaces, whether public or private, are effective instruments in promoting the social function of the city, noting the urgency of regulating this new economic segment, in order to produce a better spatial planning and to enable the legal security of the street vendor, and avoid arbitrariness. In addition, other objectives were also addressed, such as the search for understanding the characteristics of this new business model and its expansion, as well as to analyze the legislative apparatus that propelled the development of these new food marketing techniques and the challenges facing governance to establish its space in accordance with the guidelines established by the City Statute and reproduced in the Municipal Master Plan. It should be emphasized that the present work investigates the trade in food on wheels in a heterogeneous way, given the degree and the way this segment is manifested in large spaces of cities, because if they are not properly regulated and monitored they can generate urban chaos. Thus, the understanding of the global, historical and socioeconomic aspects of the installation of food trucks, food bikes and food carts are necessary for the construction of effective legal instruments for urban land use and land use planning. will ensure the implementation of the law of cities, through a functionalised and fundamental rights-based city.