Favela não é o lugar, são as pessoas . Desconstruindo a relação entre lugar e violência no Sarney e no Japão, Natal/RN

The city is the privileged place construction of social and political life, and the gathering of social groups. Meeting place, the diversity and possibilities. But the urban universe which cities belong is not a homogeneous whole. There are spaces demarcated and valued ideologically creating antithetical images about places that are now recognized as violent or dangerous. Peripheral urban situations of unprivileged add to theprejudices to the origin of place within the neighborlyallotments José Sarney and Novo Horizonte (Japan Slum) / Natal-RN, which are reproduced in narratives of everyday life. Spatial divisions are exploited, mixed and repeated to maintain social distances through rites of separations and dichotomies such as neighborhood/joint housing, allotment/slum and the people of the high place/the people of the down place. Social categories such as buraco(hole) and cabras (goats) are evoked to interpret the world of violence and places regarded as dangerous. The prominence of hypermasculinity and perception of children and adolescents living on the outer elements are brought up to the interpretation of images evoked in interviews with residents and their neighbors

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

Da Pedra do Rosário ao Pantanal: Espaço e Urbanização no Passo da Pátria (Natal/RN)

The Passo da Pátria is one of the areas of housing in the city of Natal/RN, presents characteristics of insecurity on ways to live and access to goods and services. The project of urbanization called Integrated Project Passo da Pátria implemented since 2002 by the public power wants to change this picture. In Passo da Pátria system of classifications of space operated by the villagers signals to singularities that allows the identification of four pieces: Pedra do Rosário , Passo , Areado and Pantanal . The actions of the Project of Urbanization promote a new socio-space configuration. Our objective is to examine ways of appropriation of space in Passo da Pátria , built by the residents, which included their cultural practices giving symbolic meaning to the four pieces. The methodological procedures consisted of: literature review of the themes of the City, Urban, Segregation socio-space, Space, the Public Policies in urban area and texts on the Passo da Pátria ; desk research and interviews with old residents, recent residents, and these: men, women, young, and leaders of the Passo da Pátria . The evaluation of the data indicates that residents live positively the action of the public power as regards the expansion of urban infrastructure and services. At the same time, negative value of the shares removal of residents and idea of integration for the different pieces that form the Passo da Pátria , for them, these actions desconstroem times, experiences and narratives that are expressed in their relations with the space in which live

Turismo e pobreza: percepções dos guias de turismo, moradores e não moradores que trabalham na favela da Rocinha Rio de Janeiro

This project refers to a study somewhat controversial , as in focusing less recognized and valued hand, although the dynamics of tourism pass to take another view , you can not beforehand consider favorable or unfavorable . Analyzes the phenomenon related to conception or perception of poverty from tourism residents and non residents of the Favela of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro tourist guides . It is a subject to an object of research somewhat controversial , but about which there is already an academic and scientific concern and deserves an investigator look. Fits as a qualitative study whose methodological procedure based on interviews and participant observation , and the geographic divisions chosen the Rocinha slum , for its expressiveness and for being a pioneer in this type of tourism , had to conducting fieldwork lasting six months, which was accompanied by at least four hours walking work of sixteen tour guides, eight residents and eight non- residents in the community, working for different travel agencies and tourism. End of each tour, all tour guides answered a semi-structured questionnaire, containing nineteen questions. Most respondents tour guides authorized record interview, which has made it possible to analyze the speech through spoken language. In tourism, foreign tourists are the main target, although rarely also count with the participation of domestic tourists. Notes that the relationship between poverty and slums, from the perceptions of tourist guides residents better reflects the reality of favela residents compared with non residents guides, since they fully know all the intricacies and better the difficulties they have endured and still go, when it comes to the issue of stigmatization respect, by which has suffered by Brazilian society, in relation to live in slums, and have your dwelling place as a tourist attraction. While presenting the social reality of Rocinha consistently during his work, the non residents guides worry about being as natural as possible with tourists as much as the locals show slum, in the same way they avoid authorize tourists to take compromising photos and that will expose the intimacy of community residents . Concludes that, while recognizing the importance of elevation to the rank of tourist attraction and its promising prospects, requires attention and priority, given the greater precariousness of the human condition in relation to the prime areas in which it operates tourism should be a vector of development, not a masking of reality

Percepção Ambiental: Areado - o olhar do povo, a visão da ciência

The objective of this research is to know the conscience, the sensibility and the interperformance's vision man-environment of some residents from Areado's slum, theirs attitudes and motivations to link individual and collectively with their environment seeking ransom the diferences and compare them in relacion of an scientific look. The study to the valorization of experience from individual or from the group consisted of humanist approach of Geography having the phenomenology as underlying philosophy. The theorical formulations manifested from ideas whole, detaching the effort to discipline the use at least these concepts: landscape, space, place and environment. Opposite the importance of knowing the interelation manenvironment, we insert more two concepts: topofilia (felling joins people to the place where they lives) and topophobia, because our preoccupations in the ambit of evironmental question, immediate to the human beings. The research had been developed from interview and percepition workshop, when the interviewed people answered about they understand what are environiment and Areado's environment. The gotten results allow a reflection about the evironmental thought thinking found there, constituting in subsidy to programs of evironmental education that be worried about local problems

Aracatuba virus: A vaccinialike m virus associated with infection in humans and cattle

We describe a vaccinialike virus, Aragatuba virus, associated with a cowpoxlike outbreak in a dairy herd and a related case of human infection. Diagnosis was based on virus growth characteristics, electron microscopy, and molecular biology techniques. Molecular characterization of the virus was done by using polymerase chain reaction amplification, cloning, an DNA sequencing of conserved orthopoxvirus genes such as the vaccinia growth factor (VGF), thymidine kinase (TK), and hemagglutinin. We used VGF-homologous and TK gene nucleoticle sequences to construct a phylogenetic tree for comparison with other poxviruses. Gene sequences showed 99% homology with vaccinia virus genes and were clustered together with the isolated virus in the phylogenetic tree. Aragatuba virus is very similar to Cantagalo virus, showing the same signature deletion in the gene. Aragatuba virus could be a novel vaccinialike virus or could represent the spread of Cantagalo virus.

Araçatuba virus: A vaccinialike virus associated with infection in humans and cattle

We describe a vaccinialike virus, Araçatuba virus, associated with a cowpoxlike outbreak in a dairy herd and a related case of human infection. Diagnosis was based on virus growth characteristics, electron microscopy, and molecular biology techniques. Molecular characterization of the virus was done by using polymerase chain reaction amplification, cloning, and DNA sequencing of conserved orthopoxvirus genes such as the vaccinia growth factor (VGF), thymidine kinase (TK), and hemagglutinin. We used VGF-homologous and TK gene nucleotide sequences to construct a phylogenetic tree for comparison with other poxviruses. Gene sequences showed 99% homology with vaccinia virus genes and were clustered together with the isolated virus in the phylogenetic tree. Araçatuba virus is very similar to Cantagalo virus, showing the same signature deletion in the gene. Araçatuba virus could be a novel vaccinialike virus or could represent the spread of Cantagalo virus.

Millennium development goals: advances in environmentally sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Classificação de áreas de favelas a partir de imagens IKONOS: Viabilidade de uso de uma abordagem orientada a objeto

The growth of large cities is usually accelerated and disorganized, which causes social, economical and infrastructural conflicts and frequently, occupation in illegal areas. For a better administration of these areas, the public manager needs information about their location. This information can be obtained through land utilization and land cover maps, where orbital images of remote sensing are used as one of the most traditional sources of data. In this context, the present work tested the applicability of the object-based classification to categorize two slum areas, taking into account the structure of the streets, size of the huts, distance between the houses, among other parameters. These area combinations of physical aspects were analyzed using the image IKONOS II and the software eCognition. Slum areas tend to be, to the contrary of the planned areas, disarranged, with narrow streets, small houses built with a variety of materials and without definition of blocks. The results of land cover classification for slum areas are encouraging because they are accurate and little ambiguous in the classification process. Thus, it would allow its utilization by urban managers.

A construção narrativa em Cidade de Deus de Paulo Lins

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Classificação de áreas de favelas a partir de imagens ikonos: viabilidade de uso de uma abordagem orientada a objetos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Vila da Barca, das palafitas ao conjunto habitacional: análise sobre a (im)permanência dos moradores na área

Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre a atual orientação da política habitacional brasileira de intervir em áreas de assentamentos precários, sem a remoção dos moradores, de modo a garantir sua permanência nos locais infraestruturados. O eixo da investigação gira em torno da seguinte questão: em que medida a atual orientação da política habitacional brasileira de intervir em áreas de assentamentos precários, sem a remoção da população, garante efetivamente a permanência dos moradores nos referidos locais, particularmente no Projeto de Urbanização e Habitação da Vila da Barca. O estudo apóia-se em referenciais teóricos sobre a produção da cidade capitalista e a desigualdade de apropriação do solo urbano, processos estes que impactam diretamente na constituição dos assentamentos precários como espaço de moradia para as frações da classe trabalhadora brasileira, que não conseguem acessar o mercado privado da habitação, dado os mecanismos de formação de preços da terra urbanizada. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida com base no método dialético, tendo como procedimento metodológico o levantamento bibliográfico, documental e de campo, sendo entrevistados 35 moradores que foram remanejados pelo projeto urbanístico da Vila da Barca. Os resultados apontam que as formas precárias de moradia popular constituídas em áreas insalubres e inadequadas, como os cortiços, as favelas, e, no caso de Belém, as baixadas, historicamente, foram removidas de forma repressiva pelo poder público. Entende-se que os projetos urbanísticos padronizados desenvolvidos na atualidade e voltados para o atendimento da necessidade de moradia dos trabalhadores, ainda que apresentem em sua configuração o tema da permanência, preservam os interesses da produção da cidade capitalista e evidenciam a lógica de segregação sócio-espacial, pois não imprimem mudanças substantivas na realidade das famílias. Além disso, ao contrário do que é propagado pelo discurso estatal, a pesquisa realizada na Vila da Barca, demonstra que tais projetos não conseguem garantir a fixação dos moradores nos locais de intervenção, uma vez que desarticulam as estratégias de sobrevivência das famílias, que sem condições financeiras e impossibilitadas de arcarem com os custos da nova moradia (taxas de serviços urbanos), tendem a vender os imóveis que lhes foram destinados, reproduzindo em outros assentamentos precários as condições anteriores de vida. Desta forma, o Projeto da Vila da Barca, concebido para resolver a situação de moradia das famílias da área, gerou graves consequências para as mesmas, em especial, a desestruturação das atividades ocupacionais, demonstrando os limites da intervenção estatal de acordo com a lógica de produção da cidade capitalista.

Intervenção urbana integrada: concepção, ações e contradições: o caso do Projeto de intervenção urbana do Residencial Carlos Marighella

O Residencial Carlos Marighella foi uma “ocupação informal”, classificado em 2002, pelo Ministério das Cidades, como subnormal. Hoje é um residencial que abriga mais de 2000 famílias, e está localizado no tecido urbano do município de Ananindeua, na Região Metropolitana de Belém (Pará). Sua área é entrecortada por dois igarapés que passam por um processo acelerado de degradação, devido aos dejetos que são lançados em seu leito, sem qualquer tratamento. O Igarapé das Toras é o mais afetado devido à ocupação por cerca de 40 de famílias ao longo de suas margens. A construção desse território é resultado de um movimento social de acesso à moradia, o qual logrou alcançar o reconhecimento público dos direitos ao território. Contudo, a população mantém relações contraditórias com o meio ambiente e, em especial, com os cursos de água – a exemplo do Igarapé das Toras, o qual está ameaçado em sua perenidade. Em 2006, o Município de Ananindeua, por meio de sua Secretaria de Habitação, elaborou e apresentou proposta junto ao Ministério das Cidades, para a urbanização de assentamentos precários, com o apoio dos moradores da área. E, em 2007, o projeto foi aprovado, contemplando a área do Carlos Marighella, com recursos financeiros destinados à intervenção urbana. A pesquisa teve como objetivo examinar como o projeto de intervenção urbana integrada interagiu com a população local, com o agente municipal, e o órgão financiador pelo agente federal, a CAIXA. A revisão teórica foi realizada por meio dos conceitos de intervenção urbana integrada e gestão social de seus atores, como a participação social, no contexto de desenvolvimento socioambiental. O método de abordagem foi um estudo de caso de natureza histórico-descritiva, e com enfoque qualitativo, devido ao fato da análise centrar-se em uma política pública de intervenção urbana integrada diferenciada daquelas que foram, à época, implementadas por meio do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC). O estudo mostra que não foram incorporadas as questões relativas ao reconhecimento mais amplo do “direito à cidade”, e que houve limitação no entendimento de “intervenção urbana integrada” e “cidadania”, por parte dos elaboradores.

Vozes periféricas: expansão, imersão e diálogo na obra dos Racionais MC's

This paper presents a reflection on the work of the rap group from São Paulo Racionais MC's, highlighting points of dialogue between his last two studio albums: Sobrevivendo no inferno, 1997, and Nada como um dia após o outro, 2002. We found, in this discursive course, the presence of voices which intertwine and indicate a collectivized speech, seeking the identification between the slums and the group's rhetoric, but they also point out to an immersion into the subjectivity, to the problematization of the discourse itself, acting as a form of debugging of the social experience in the favela. We argue further that Sobrevivendo no inferno represents a turning point in the thinking of the quartet. Thus, themes and perspectives present, although embryonically, in the first focused album, point to dramas that take shape in the second one.

A nova habitação social: concepções inovadoras aplicadas em ZEIS

Discussions on the production of housing for residents of low income, in Brazil, has come a long, but still no great solutions. Not only a political problem, the issue of housing involves also social and economic issues. From the beginning there was a downward grade of the slum villages more sophisticated more precarious, as if the social scale. And that is what this work will be done. In an attempt to produce forms of housing for low-income population, but not to be a mere product of capitalism, or political propaganda, but to try to reach a real solution to the problem. The project will propose new forms of construction, use of renewable energy, reuse of water and other, besides new forms of construction, the project aims to create a sustainable education to future residents