Centros históricos e desenvolvimento urbano: um estudo comparativo entre os programas Monumenta no Brasil e Polis em Portugal

Both the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century have been characterized as a period of major political, economic, social and cultural transformations. Two of the major consequences of the political-economical crisis of the end of last century are the restructuring of capitalist production, and the consolidation of neoliberalism as a worldwide phenomenon. This new world political-economical scenario has influenced, in a dialectic way, the contemporary urban development. In that sense, "new" spatial processes and new paradigms in both urban management and urban planning have gained shape. In this context of urban transformations, the central areas of western cities, also known as historic centers, are being increasingly (re)valued. Since the Second World War, the historic centers urban areas which have great infrastructure and symbolic relevance had been undergoing a process of evasion of population and activities, undeniably linked to the neglect of government authorities. However, in recent decades, the question of historic centers rehabilitation has acquired a growing interest, academically and in political agendas. The object of this dissertation is to focus on how the government of each Brazil and Portugal has dealt with the issue of historic center rehabilitation through programs of urban rehabilitation

A Relação professor-aluno e a afirmação do discente como sujeito do processo projetual: um estudo exploratório sobre a produção do trabalho final de graduação em arquitetura e urbanismo na UFC e na UFRN

This work deals with teacher-student relationship (TSR), held in a very special moment: the semester of graduation of architecture and urbanism, where students prepare the final work called Graduation Final Work (GFW). That is the last stage to obtain the title of architect and urban planner in Brazil. The text discusses this problem in several ways, emphasing the relationship between graduated student and his/her mentors into the consolidation process of the student as an actor of the planning process, here defined as "autonomy". The work is focused on understanding the TSR in order to elucidate its importance for improvement of teaching bases on development of the GFW, more than the relation between curriculum and institution. Related with the exploratory characteristic of this master thesis, methodologically, the field work happened through: (i) observation of mentorship guidance, (ii) interviews, and (iii) application of questionnaires to teachers and students. Participated 10 pairs of student and mentors of two federal university of Northeast: 05 pairs of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and 05 pairs of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The results presented the development of the GFW as a difficult process / fearful for students, highlighting the main problem situations: the difficulty in choosing the theme, the super-sizing of the process, students' insecurities, and parental relationship with the supervisor process. Summing up, the work indicates that the students has a limited autonomy on the GFW process, which calls for a revision in order to promote the consolidation of the student autonomy, which must be observed for some positions recognition of the role of each actor in the process of orientation

Henrique Novaes: técnica, território e cidade em uma trajetória profissional: Brasil, primeira metade do século XX

The career of civil engineer Henrique de Novaes, a remarkable figure in the academic, technical and political fields, demonstrates its extensive and relevant work across Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. It covered from the design of water supply and sewage works, road and rail transport networks, works against drought in the Northeast, hydroelectric and harbor facilities to the urbanization planning and architectural projects, which displays a systematic and multiple production. City and territory conformed to his fields of verification, practical and above all, transformation. The search for understanding of the inclusion of a social actor in this process thus contributes to the specific analysis of the doings of Henrique de Novaes, who graduated at Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro in 1906. From a polymorphic activity in different scales, one tries to figure how, through academic education or professional practice, urban history in Brazil can be told or built. The introduction of technological innovations matched the purposes of planning and urban sprawl, as well as met the specifications of regulation and institutionalization of public infrastructure services at the time. The overall plans proposed by the engineer thought of the city as a whole, interconnected to the structural networks. At the same time, the knowledge of a larger physical scale the territory bounces back in the urban in a relationship of reciprocity and completeness. The objective research, therefore, tries to understand the roles played by Henrique de Novaes s works and academic education in the accomplishment of systematic modernization of Brazilian urban space and territory, recovering a little known historical figure by current historiography. It is proposed, as methodological axis, that the study of this professional career configures itself as an essential element for understanding the idea of progress embodied in the technical studies and proposals for improvements and sanitation nationwide in the first half of the twentieth century . The primary sources for the construction of this analysis were technical articles in journals of the period ( Clube de Engenharia , Viação e Revista Brasileira de Engenharia ), and technical reports, government messages, newspaper articles published at the time, autobiographical reports and the engineer s verbal communications with relatives. The work is structured in three chapters: "Biographical traces, academic education and 'technical and political' activities" illustrates the initiation into the technical, public and political environment; Chapter 2, "Technique and territory" outlines his network understanding through sanitation and transport services; Chapter 3 "Technique and City" describes the influence of polytechnics knowledge on the propositions of modernization of cities; Finally, "Final Thoughts: An Evaluation," presents an overview of the affiliations and practice of an engineer in the different scales, and its contribution to the modernization of Brazilian urban and territorial space

O descompasso de uma experiência: avaliação do Programa Habitar Brasil na Comunidade África-Natal/RN

This research deals with the evaluation of the Programa do Governo Federal para Urbanização de Favelas Habitar Brasil(1993) carried out in the Africa slum - Redinha neighbourhood in Natal-Rn. This study carried out in period from 2005 to 2006 searches to identify the effects of the actions proposed by Program in 1993-1994 about the current urbanistic configuration of the Africa community. It analyzes the effectiveness in the process of achievement of the considered objectives to habitation, communitity equipments, infrastructure and agrarian regularization. On the evaluation process, it has been as reference the works developed by Adauto Cardoso (2004), Blaine Worthen (2004), Ronaldo Garcia (2001) and Rosângela Paz (2006). About the Habitational Policy with approach to the Urbanistic Right and the right to the housing, the reflections by Raquel Rolnik, Nabil Bonduki, Ermínia Maricato, Saule Júnior, Betânia de Moraes Alfonsin and Edésio Fernandes are main references. To gauge the execution of the objectives proposed by Habitar Brasil in 1993, it has searched in the documentary data of the time and in information gotten in interviews with technicians that had participated of the program, consistent references on what was considered, what was executed and the process of the intervention of Habitar Brasil in the Africa community. The area analysis in 2005-2006 has developed on the base of the urbanistic survey of the current situation from the four performance lines of the Program: habitation, infrastructure, community equipments and agrarian regularization, with a current urbanistic evaluation of Africa considering the intervention carried out in 1993 and 1994. The study points out the context of Brazilian Habitational Policy where the Programa Habitar Brasil was launched, explaining the main principles of the Program. In terms of local, it empahsizes the administrative-political factors that had contributed so that Natal-Rn city has been pioneering in the resources captation of Habitar Brazil (1993). Considering Habitar Brazil in Africa, the work argues and presents the intervention diagnosis and the proposal, developed by Program in 1993 evidencing the local problem of the time. After that, it makes a current reading of the area, identifying in 2006 representative elements of Habitar Brasil (1993-1994) for the Africa community. It identifies significant advances in the constitution of the institucional apparatus of the plaining system of Habitation of Social Interest for the city of Natal and points the fragilities in the implementation of the urban infrastructure actions and above all in the achievement of the objectives of the agrarian regularization

A eliminação dos muxarabis, rótulas e geolosias do Brasil : um caso de dominação econômica

O objetivo dessa dissertação de mestrado é apontar para uma possível razão que explicaria a eliminação de alguns dos prováveis contributos mouriscas à Arquitetura Brasileira - os Muxarabis, Rótulas e Gelosias - durante o Brasil Joanino e Independente ao longo do XIX. O motivo apontado seria a dominação que as nações industrializadas, nomeadamente Inglaterra, exercia sobre Portugal (a antiga metrópole) e Brasil Tais contributos mouriscas foram eliminados das cidades brasileiras através editais que obrigavam a sua retirada e foram substituídos pelo seu equivalente industrializado: as vidraças e estruturas de ferro fundido importados. ABSTRACT: The objective of this master dissertation is to indicate a possible reason that would explain the elimination of some probable Moorish contributes to Brazilian Architecture - Mashrabiyya and Lattice Work - during the Joanine and Independent Brazil through the XIX century. The indicated reason would be the domination which industrialized nations, mainly England, took over Portugal (former colonizer) and Brazil. Such contributes were eliminated from Brazilian cities by official documents forcing their removal and were replaced by their industrialized equivalent: glass window and cast iron imported.

Caracterização de progênies de mamona (Ricinus communis L.) para arquitetura de planta em condições de safrinha no Estado de São Paulo.

A arquitetura da mamoneira é bastante variável, constituída por caracteres que apresentam, geralmente, herança independente que se encontram distribuídos pelo germoplasma da espécie. Variações nos padrões de arquitetura das plantas de mamona possibilitam novas distribuições espaciais na implantação da cultura, viabilizando diferentes métodos de cultivo e novas épocas de semeadura para a espécie. Foi instalado um ensaio de avaliação com 73 progênies do Programa de Melhoramento de Mamona do Instituto Agronômico - IAC e sete materiais comerciais como testemunhas intercalares. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos casualisados com três repetições e as parcelas foram semeadas em fevereiro de 2007, em Campinas, SP. Foram avaliados os caracteres: altura da planta, altura do racemo primário, altura do racemo secundário, diâmetro do caule, número de entrenós e tamanho de entrenós. Os resultados da análise de variância e a distribuição de médias para os caracteres avaliados evidenciaram a larga variabilidade e o potencial dos materiais para o melhoramento, além da possibilidade de cultivo da mamona em condição de safrinha no Sudeste do Brasil.

DISCUTINDO A QUESTÃO DO TERRITÓRIO PARA A OMPREENSÃO A REALIDADE METROPOLITANA DE MARINGÁ – PR – BRASIL

Ao investigar diferentes autores que dialogam sobre a questão do território, foi possível chegar a uma reflexão teórica sobre diferentes enfoques que o mesmo possibilita, embora neste raciocínio, objetivamos dar ênfase a questão definidora dos processos e institucionalizações enquanto expressão legal e moral do Estado que envolve o processo de metropolização. Para alcançar os resultados, foi utilizado um embasamento teórico, que norteou as reflexões relacionadas aos produtores do espaço urbano, evidenciando o papel do Estado na configuração do território que abarca a Região Metropolitana de Maringá. Importante salientar que, na ciência geográfica, o território possibilita inúmeras concepções que resultam de diferentes momentos históricos impressos através do uso e da forma. Essa discussão abordada respalda um dos muitos fragmentos gerados pela urbanização, possibilitando abordar a questão da metropolização. Concluímos que, as configurações regionais e urbanas resultantes de processos evolutivos funcionais das aglomerações populacionais expressam fluxos de inúmeras naturezas. O foco aqui esboçado seguiu a integração de espaços buscando articular o planejamento e desenvolvimento regional. Aludindo a instituída Região Metropolitana de Maringá na busca da integração e cooperação diante de objetivos comuns de desenvolvimento econômico e social.

Ética en la investigación psicológica : una mirada a los códigos de ética de Argentina, Brasil y Colombia

Resumen: En esta propuesta se discuten las consideraciones éticas sobre la investigación, hechas en tres códigos, a saber, la ley 1090 de 2006, que rige el ejercicio profesional del psicólogo en Colombia, el Código de Ética Profissional do Psicólogo do Conselho Federal de Psicología en Brasil y el Código Nacional de Ética de la Federación de Psicólogos de la República Argentina. El análisis de los preceptos sobre trato con personas, consentimiento informado y manejo de información, así como las investigaciones con animales, permiten apreciar carencias y fortalezas en cada país, además de las particularidades propias de una concepción del rol del psicólogo como investigador en la sociedad actual.

O papel das TICs na institucionalização das democracias : um estudo sobre a informatização dos órgãos legislativos na América do Sul com destaque para o Brasil

Análise comparativa dos web sites dos órgãos legislativos sul-americanos, com destaque para o Brasil.

Guia de obras de Oscar Niemeyer : Brasília 50 anos

Apresenta informações precisas e primorosamente ilustradas sobre as obras mais importantes de Niemeyer presentes na capital do país, Brasília.

Pensar a justiça restaurativa no Brasil

Anais da Audiência Pública realizada na Câmara dos Deputados pela Comissão de Legislação Participativa, no dia 19 de outubro de 2005, para debater sobre o paradigma da justiça restaurativa como alternativa à justiça criminal.

Construções sustentáveis

Apresenta os resultados do Seminário Construções Sustentáveis, ocorrido no dia 24 de junho de 2010, fruto da parceria entre a Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CMADS) e a Comissão de Desenvolvimento Urbano (CDU).

A crise financeira mundial e seu impacto no Brasil

Apresenta os debates ocorridos nas diversas audiências públicas realizadas durante o I Ciclo de Debates acerca da Crise Financeira Internacional e suas Repercussões na Economia Brasileira. O evento contribuiu para avaliar os efeitos da crise e forneceu subsídios aos parlamentares a fim de tomarem as decisões necessárias para enfrentar as demandas atuais e seus possíveis desdobramentos.