Urban Developments in Brazil and Portugal

Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about ‘urban developments’ in the
Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil and Portugal. As each analyst tends to have a particular view on what the
concept should refer to, the meaning attributed to the word ‘development’ in this book is also diverse. This is one of
the reasons why it is written in its plural form: ‘developments’. The concept (or the word) is used here openly so
that all efforts to define it are provisory, partial and elusive, considering the various national, regional, linguistic and
scientific meanings pertaining to correlated facts and processes and according to the geo-historical context in which
the term is used. In the title, the idea of ‘urban developments’ is also used to indicate evolution or novelty, that is,
the book is dedicated to discussing state-of-the-art urban research in Brazil and Portugal.
It is worth pointing out that the difficulties presented in the definition of the concept of ‘development’ do not put
the idea of ‘universal values and rights’ in jeopardy. In a society in which markets are a prime way to access goods
and services, money is essential. Economics matters in our individual and collective condition towards
development. It is critical that under today’s competitive, unequal economic system, ways to promote
improvement of living conditions and social justice are sought for.
The word ‘urban’ is a meaningful addition to ‘development’ as it denotes a completely new world order. In the last
few years, not only has the world become more urban than rural in statistical terms, but also in its manner of living.
The urbanization process, now much stronger in Africa and parts of Asia, has generated a number of by-products,
such as suburbanization and ex-urbanization. The smaller scale and relative fixedness of rural life styles are difficult
to reproduce in rapidly changing urban environments, resulting in hybrid forms of living in now multifunctional
cities and urban environments.
The theme that reunites the majority of the articles in this book is that of ‘urban developments’ within which ‘urban
planning’ should be highlighted. This refers to the intention to change the spaces where most of the world’s people
live in order to promote development. The various forms of urban planning – such as the physical, strategic,
participative, communicative, operational, management-oriented, or even those more historically-related to
hygiene principles, utopian socialism, culturalism or functionalism – show how complex this matter is.
We then invite you to join us in this journey that has just begun. It is the first major outcome, born out of an
association between two established research groups, one in Portugal (CEGOT – Centro de Estudos em Geografia e
Ordenamento do Território, at the Universidade de Coimbra, the Universidade do Porto and the Universidade do
Minho), the other in Brazil (NAPP-DPP – Núcleo Avançado de Políticas Públicas - Departamento de Políticas Públicas,
at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte).
Urban Developments in Brazil and Portugal
Editors: Márcio Moraes Valença ( Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Centro de Ciências Humanas,
Campus Universitario- Brazil) Fernanda Cravidão and José Alberto Rio Fernandes
(CEGOT – Universidade do Porto)
Book Description:
Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the
Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil and Portugal. As each analyst tends to have a particular view on what the
concept should refer to, the meaning attributed to the word ‘development’ in this book is also diverse. This is one of
the reasons why it is written in its plural form: ‘developments’. The concept (or the word) is here used openly so
that all efforts to define it are provisory, partial and elusive, considering the various national, regional, linguistic and
scientific meanings pertaining to correlated facts and processes and according to the geo-historical context in which
the term is used. In the title, the idea of ‘urban developments’ is also used to indicate evolution or novelty. The
book is dedicated to discussing state-of-the-art urban research in Brazil and Portugal. (Imprint: Nova)
Table of Contents:
Urban developments in Brazil and Portugal – An introduction
(The Editors)
Urban Planning
1. USP globalization and urban policy in the periphery of capitalism
(Erminia Maricato, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Universidade de São Paulo)
2. Urban adjustment: world bank and IDB policies for cities
(Pedro Fiori Arantes, USINA)
3. A bridge to speculation or the art of rent in the staging of a “global city”
(Mariana Fix, Laboratório de Habitação e Assentamentos Humanos
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo)
4. Urban policy goals and territorial planning – articulations and lessons from planning urban regions in Portugal
(João Cabral, José Crespo, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon)
5. Lisbon: metropolis and urbanised landscape
(Sofia Morgado, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon)
6. The close relationship between tourism and privately governed territory – A sustainable urban solution in Brazil?
(Maria Florésia Pessoa de Sousa e Silva, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Paulo José Lisboa Nobre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
7. Enabling local development through Digital Cities: examples from Portugal
(Bárbara Barbosa Neves, Centre for Public Administration and Policies
Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon)
8. Water-sensitive urban planning: a simulation approach for a coastal plain in Brazil
(Iana A. A. Rufino, Carlos de O. Galvão, Vajapeyam S. Srinivasan,
Janiro C. Rêgo, José do Patrocínio, T. Albuquerque, Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Campina
Grande)
Social Housing:
9. Housing policy and urban development: the Brazilian experience
(Rosa Moura, Instituto Paranaense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (IPARDES) Clovis Ultramari, Pontifical
University of Paraná)
10. Sound salad: The soundscapes of a Brazilian favela (Andrea Medrado, University of Westminster)
11. Geographic dimensions of the Brazilian metropolitan areas peripherization process
(Ralfo Matos, Ricardo A. Garcia, Geosciences Institute Federal University of Minas Gerais State)
12. Socio-economic segregation and activity spaces in cities of the northeastern part of Brazil – Natal, an example
(Julia Richter, NAPP - Núcleo Avançado de Políticas Públicas
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
13. Social housing design in southern Brazil and its implication for urban development
(Antônio Tarcísio Reis, Maria Cristina Dias Lay, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
City Center:
14. Citizenship between urbanization and protecting cultural heritage
(Miguel Sopas de Melo Bandeira, Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade do Minho)
15. From urban renewal to gentrification of leisure and consumption: spatial appropriation strategies in the central
area of an Amazonian city
(Saint-Clair Cordeiro da Trindade Júnior, Universidade Federal do Pará)
Urban Culture:
16. The innovative and normative role of culture in urban development policies. Questioning "peripheries" in urban
spaces of Brazil and Portugal
(Nicolas Bautès, URBI) Elodie Valette, CIRAD, France)
17. Evening/night-time leisure in Coimbra
(Norberto Pinto dos Santos, Claudete Oliveira Moreira, Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do
Território - CEGOT University of Coimbra)
18. Centrality and symbolic order in Porto Alegre metropolitan region
(Romulo Krafta, Yuri Kokubun, Department of Urbanism Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
19. Tourism, trade and cocoa”: politics and tourist space in Ilhéus, Brazil
(Roque Pinto, State University of Santa Cruz, Brazil)
20. Rock music and place as purpose in Brasilia Jesse
(Samba Wheeler, UCLA)
The Diaspora:
21. Brazilian immigrant women in Lisbon, Portugal (Luciana Pontes Pinto, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
22. An interpretive visit to the Quartier Portugais in Montreal
(Guilherme Azevedo, McGill University)
Series:
Urban Development and Infrastructure
Binding: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-September
Pages: 7 x 10 (NBC - C)
ISBN: 978-1-61470-892-6