O tempo e o espaço do comércio 24 horas na metrópole paulista

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A reprodução capitalista no setor habitacional e as transformações no espaço urbano: o caso do Jardim Letícia (Leme-SP)

This paper discusses urban space focusing on the housing sector, the capitalist reproduction and some changes occurring in that space as a result of the dynamics of the real estate sector and interests of financial agents, developers and urban land owners/speculators. The changes imposed to cities value abstract spaces over concrete ones, showing the unbalance between the interests of agents, who have in view the market, and those of dwellers, who live daily in such areas. Based on these reflections, a case study was carried out in the Jardim Letícia neighborhood in Leme city (state of São Paulo) in order to understand the space production and reproduction in that area, analyze some of the main problems faced by local people, and identify some agents involved in the process.

Sprawling and Urban transportation system: Impacts in the city of Londrina, Parana, Brazil

After nearly 80 years since the construction of its core, represented today by the city's central area, Londrina, located in the state of Parana, has the appearance of a new city but its features and trends of planning policies depict the bad examples of Brazilian cities. With a booming urban growth, from north to south of the county, the urban interstices represented by big voids in the middle of the city created speculation and the concept of an ideal city slowly disappeared. With a metropolitan appearance and, at the same time, with small town aspects, Londrina stands out as an automobile-oriented city, a fact that has impacted the livelihood of the population, generating environmental impacts for all social classes. This paper discusses how the form of occupation in Londrina, characterized by the sprawl phenomenon and its relation to car preference as a mode of transportation has generated urban environmental impacts. It was concluded that the choice of using cars in Londrina, as well in other medium-sized Brazilian cities studied by the comparative method, has increased and has generated bottlenecks in traffic. As a consequence, there is a constant expropriation of properties for widening roads and at the same time, the presence of various densities and urban voids that form an uneven urban space and an obstacle to efficient urban planning. © 2012 WIT Press.

Processo de revalorização na cidade de Santos-SP: o Alegra Centro e espaços de resistência

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

O espaço da produção solidária dos catadores de materiais recicláveis: usos e contradições

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O espaço urbano e suas temporalidades: diagnóstico e propostas de intervenção para o patrimônio histórico do centro de Limeira - SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Paisagens pretéritas e a (re)produção do centro da cidade de Rio Claro - SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A reprodução do capital imobiliário, os multicomplexos coorporativos e a elitização do espaço: o exemplo do Parque Cidade Jardim na cidade de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

A reprodução do espaço urbano na cidade de São Paulo na perspectiva da hotelaria de alto padrão

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O espaço da economia solidária: a autogestão na reprodução das relações sociais e os limites da emancipação social

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Os espaços da sociabilidade segmentada: a produção do espaço público em Presidente Prudente

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As metamorfoses no espaço com o advento da Copa do Mundo no Brasil: estudos sobre o distrito de Itaquera-SP

The present work discuss the reproduction of the social relations from the point of view of the new urban production relations - having as empirical universe for analysis-, the Itaquera district in the Sao Paulo metropolis, with the advent of the World Cup in Brazil. Starting with the reading of a reality in movement, in which the analysis walks covering the dialectic relationship between space and society, where the first is translated into product and life reproduction condition, aiming to unveil the metamorphoses that will take place in the urban space with its consequent contradiction, what it may be the expanded capital reproduction concomitantly with the process that denounces a spoliation movement of the social space. With the society approval before these big architectural projects enabled by ideology, it’s determined the (re) production of artificial spaces of consumption, funded for the capital extension. The current stage that the capitalism reveals a space turned into mass consumption merchandise, consequence of the victory of the exchange value over the usage value, amalgamated in positive measures of expulsion/sweeping of low income socio-economic layers

No vazio, caberiam casas, parques, fábricas... caberia muita cidade

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Diferenciando o espaço e produzindo cidades: lógicas e agentes da produção do espaço urbano em Ribeirão Preto/SP e Londrina/PR

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Convivendo com o lixo: a vulnerabilidade socioambiental no bairro Jardim Graminha, Leme, Sao Paulo

Urban space occupation occurs in an extremely disordered way. Political, economical and social aspects converge to create a problem that affects mostly poor people who are impelled to occupy areas where social and environmental problems are likely to emerge. Floods, landslides and different forms of pollution have more effects on the most vulnerable groups. In many cases, actions taken by the government legitimate this structure and reinforce its reproduction. This work seeks to confirm both that poor people are vulnerable to social and environmental problems resulting from inappropriate urban solid waste disposal and that the local government contributes to this situation. It is assumed that the issue is related first to the government’s disregard for poor people who live in unhealthy places and, second, to the inability of such people to demand for better living conditions. In this study, a waste disposal area within Jardim Graminha neighborhood in Leme (São Paulo) was selected to be analyzed by means of systematic observation. The study clearly shows that poor people living near that area where different types of garbage are disposed are vulnerable and the government does not control the situation. It is also pointed out that governmental intervention and the use of political and technical tools are necessary for planning and managing the area to mitigate these problems and to decrease poor people’s social and environmental vulnerability.