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Brasil urbano
A obra traça um panorama do urbanismo brasileiro desde o período joanino no século XIX até a realidade tumultuada das favelas cariocas no século XXI, passando pela exclusão social no grande ABC e pelos assentamentos informais no Recife. No esboço de um novo governo, há uma luz no final do túnel para que o denominamos neste livro "Brasil Urbano". Como resposta a anos de Reforma Urbana, é criado, logo, no resplandecer do novo governo, o Ministério das Cidades. O novo ministério agrega secretarias e funções preexistentes, como também institui outras novas. Em particular, deve-se destacar o esforço do governo na montagem de uma equipe de experts para estudar, analisar e propor soluções para os problemas que se convencionou chamar de cidade ilegal. São vários os seus problemas, porém, deve-se destacar a questão da posse da terra, vital para qualquer projeto que vislumbre atender à massa da população de carentes urbanos no Brasil.
The Resilience of the Latin American Right
Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.
Designing Emerging Markets
This book offers a unique glance into the process of globalisation of the architectural practice during the last three decades through the lenses of innovative methodologies in architectural history based on quantitative data. Focusing on the golden age of globalisation (1990-2019), it investigates the transnational work of more than one thousand architectural firms of different business models from Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific in a broad sample of emerging markets: Mainland China, South-East Asia, India, the Persian Gulf, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Kazakhstan, and Latin America. In the book, different thematic geographies are presented to explore the global scope of the c...
Architecture and the Social Sciences
This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting current interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching as well as research and practice in architecture and urbanism. It also raises awareness about the complementarities and tensions between the spaces of the project, including the construction spaces and living space. It gives voice to recent projects and socio-territorial interventions, focusing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches between society and space. Divided into two parts, the first part discusses the possible dialogue between social sciences and architecture, while the second part explores architecture, politics and social change in urban territories from a European perspective.
Neoliberalism Inequality and Authoritarianism
This book exposes the inherent contradictions of neoliberalism. The myth of limitless growth ignores the reality of resource constraints and fuels a global upward transfer of wealth. Meanwhile, a fractured global economy and intensifying class warfare chip away at neoliberalism's foundation. As inequality spirals and social justice crumbles, the model increasingly serves a privileged few at the expense of the majority. This undermines the Enlightenment ideal of using liberal democracy to improve lives in the age of mass politics, threatening neoliberalism's very survival.
Semiosis and Catastrophes
The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and linguistics. Thom's heritage is full of revolutionary ideas and deep insights which stem from a rich intuition and a sharp awareness of the current state of the sciences, including their potentials and risks. The contributions to this volume are elaborations of papers given at a colloquium at the International Center for Semiotics and Linguistics of the University of Urbino (Italy), in 2005. The central concern of this volume is sem...
Delivery As Dispossession
A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town an...
Cidade Ilegal
Este livro discute o (i)legal, (in)formal, (ir)regular, termos que apontam para aspectos constituintes da cidade terceiro-mundista contemporânea, em particular no que diz respeito ao acesso à terra, inclusive os marcos regulatórios estabelecidos no que recentemente foi denominado direito urbanístico. No Brasil, esses marcos têm se desenvolvido, nas últimas duas décadas, com a Constituição de 1988 e o Estatuto da Cidade de 2001, entre outros. A obra apresenta dez capítulos de interesse para estudiosos urbanos em geral. Dois capítulos – o primeiro e o último – são contribuições teórico-concentuais mais gerais. O pano de fundo para os demais, no entanto, é a realidade brasileira, mas também inclui análises mais detidas de cidades como São Paulo, Belém e Maceió.
Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South
Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas. This is the first book to review the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing urban poverty in the Global South. It describes and discusses the different ways in which national and local governments, international agencies and civil society organizations are seeking to reduce urban poverty. Different approaches are e...
