Socio-economic cohesion and contemporary spatial practices: cities of medium size and consumption

• Grant number: 11/20155-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Eda Maria Góes ; Eliseu Savério Sposito
• Associated researchers: Antonio Henrique Bernardes ; Arthur Magon Whitacker ; Eliseu Savério Sposito ; Everaldo Santos Melazzo ; Igor de França Catalão ; Júlio César Zandonadi ; Luciano Antonio Furini ; Márcio José Catelan ; Maria Angélica de Oliveira Magrini ; Nécio Turra Neto ; Vitor Koiti Miyazaki ; Wagner Vinicius Amorim ; William Ribeiro da Silva
• Associated research grant(s): 15/16979-1 - 5th International Seminar City, Urban Retail and Consumption, AR.EXT; 13/14639-3 - 4th International Seminar City, Retail and Consumption, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/03757-3 - The consolidated centre and the main centre in polycentric cities: transformations and permanencies in Marília, Presidente Prudente e São Carlos-SP, BP.DD; 16/06856-2 - Technological innovations and changes in locational patterns of commerce and services activities: study on the setting of the centrality in Ribeirão Preto - SP, BP.MS; 15/26965-8 - (In)security territory: the process of socio-spatial differentiation from the distribution of security and surveillance systems in Presidente Prudente, BP.IC; + associated scholarships 15/23945-6 - When new characters come into play: research about João Domingos Netto housing (Presidente Prudente - SP), from the introduced changes performed by the dwellers, BP.IC; 15/19621-0 - The consumer society in Brazilian medium-sized cities: new eating habits and their consumption spaces, BP.PD; 14/26118-0 - The program Minha Casa Minha Vida in Presidente Prudente and São Carlos - SP: new suburbs and new meanings of housing?, BP.DR; 15/11317-0 - Social representations of consumers in Londrina ( PR), BP.IC; 15/10079-9 - The new offer of night fun: a study of night leisure centrality in São José do Rio Preto, BP.MS; 14/26129-2 - Urban space, magazines and creditization of consumption in Londrina (PR) and Presidente Prudente (SP), BP.MS; 15/05021-1 - City center and lower circuit of the urban economy in Londrina - PR, BP.IC; 14/25861-1 - City Centre and Intraurban Centrality, BE.PQ; 14/18637-8 - Gated communities and own confinement in Brazilian mid-sized cities: contemporary figures of heterotopia and subjectivation processes, BP.PD; 14/25735-6 - Relationship between new enclosed habitats and safety equipment consumption in Ribeirão Preto (SP) and Londrina (PR), BP.IC; 14/24405-2 - Local and extra local real estate agents: new logics of urban space production, an analysis of the crediting process in the Program Minha Casa, Minha Vida in Marília/SP, BP.IC; 14/20513-5 - Changes in consumption/change in urban space: popular shops, traditional centers and sales by the internet in the 2000s, BP.IC; 14/19687-9 - New patterns of real estate market consumption and acquiring companies strategies in medium-sized cities: an analysis focused on Londrina, São José do Rio Preto and Ribeirão Preto, BP.PD; 14/07800-5 - BRASIPOLIS: Cities, urban agglomerations and population., BP.PD; 13/26896-0 - New and old commercial forms in urban space production in medium cities: urban centrality, spatial practices and consumption, BP.DR; 14/04699-1 - Appliances networks in six medium-sized Brazilian cities: electronic commerce spatial distribution, recent evolution and importance, BP.PD; 14/01067-4 - The consumption society in Brazilian medium-sized cities: new eating habits and their consumption spaces, BP.PD; 14/01069-7 - Economic Producers Agents of Space in the Cusco and Huancayo, BP.DR; 14/03110-4 - Locational dynamics of establishments and jobs in commercial activities and services in medium-sized Brazilian cities: Presidente Prudente, Marília and São Carlos, BP.IC; 14/02386-6 - New patterns of real estate market consumption and acquiring companies strategies in medium-sized cities: an analysis focused on Londrina, São José do Rio Preto and Ribeirão Preto, BP.PD; 14/01153-8 - A city, a mall, an experience: shopping Iguatemi Ribeirão Preto and relationships with real and simulated urban space, BP.IC; 13/25894-4 - The socio-spatial practices of young people in the evenings entertainment in the cities of Bauru and Marilia., BP.DR; 14/03651-5 - Multiple centralities of night-time leisure in the city of São José do Rio Preto-SP, BP.IC; 13/22479-6 - The traditional centre and the main centre in the polycentric cities: transformations and permanencies in Marília and Presidente Prudente - SP, BP.MS; 13/23953-3 - Development and implementation of research procedures in geography of commerce: delimitation, intensity and specialization of commercial areas: a proposal for the study of central areas in mid-sized cities based on Sporker's research, BP.IC; 13/27177-8 - Social representations of consumers in hypermarkets of Ribeirão Preto (SP) and São Carlos (SP), BP.IC; 13/19086-2 - Consumption times and the urban agents's spatial practices on the medium-sized cities. Comparation between the brazilian towns of Presidente Prudente and Londrina., BP.PD; 14/01760-1 - Shopping malls and new consumption and social control practices in Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos, BP.IC; 13/25195-9 - Location patterns of commercial activities and services in Brazilian medium-sized cities: Marília and Londrina, BP.IC; 14/00519-9 - Centralities of night-time leisure in the city of São Carlos-SP and the interface relations, BP.IC; 13/24752-1 - Local and not local real estate agents: new logics of urban space production / consumption? An analysis from Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto, BP.IC; 13/23967-4 - Development and implementation of research procedures in trade geography: delimitation, intensity and specialization of commercial areas, BP.IC; 13/23951-0 - Development and implementation of research procedures in trade geography: delimitation, intensity and specialization of commercial areas, BP.IC; 13/24354-6 - Economic logics and contemporary socio-spatial practices: medium-sized cities and local real estate agents and extra locations: new logics of urban space production / consumption: an analysis from Marília and Londrina, BP.IC; 13/24338-0 - Local real estate agents and extra locations: new logic of production/consumption of urban space? An analysis from Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto, BP.IC; 13/23349-9 - Shopping malls and new consumption practices and social control in Marília (SP) and Londrina (PR), BP.IC; 13/25522-0 - Consumers' social representations in hypermarkets: Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto, BP.IC; 13/23926-6 - Centralities of nocturnal leisure in the city of Ribeirão Preto - SP and interface relations, BP.IC; 13/23964-5 - City center and lower circuit of the urban economy in São Carlos, BP.IC; 13/04440-5 - TERRITORIALITY AND YOUTH SOCIABILITY IN MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES: NIGHTLIFE CENTRALITY IN LONDRINA - PR, BP.MS; 13/23024-2 - Center and lower circuit of the urban economy in Marília, BP.IC; 13/23276-1 - Commercial activities and services location patterns in Brazilian medium-sized cities: Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto, BP.IC; 13/17881-0 - The real estate market in Londrina and Marilia: a comparative analysis of the intra-urban structuring processes, BP.IC; 13/09323-7 - The spatial logic of banking: restructuring the city of Presidente Prudente - SP, BP.IC; 13/15387-8 - Centralities of leisure in Presidente Prudente - SP: flows, tensions and territorialities on Parque do Povo, BP.IC; 13/16611-9 - Foreign trade: the effects of globalization on consumption potential of the middle-sized cities of Presidente Prudente, Marília and São Carlos, BP.IC; 13/03333-0 - Mall, centrality in urban and interurban medium cities, BP.MS; 13/04406-1 - Logical space of franchised businesses in the service industry supply: medium cities and consumption, BP.MS; 12/24711-0 - Economic logic and contemporary spatial practices: medium cities and consumption, BP.IC; 13/08710-7 - Centralization, commercial axis and consumption: a study of car dealerships in Presidente Prudente - SP, BP.IC; 13/11067-9 - The real estate market in São Carlos and Ribeirão Preto: comparative analysis of processes of structuring intra-urban recent, BP.IC; 13/11068-5 - The real estate market in São José do Rio Preto and Presidente Prudente - SP: comparative analysis of processes of structuring intra-urban recent, BP.IC; 13/06240-3 - Socio-economic cohesion and contemporary spatial practices: cities of medium size and consumption, BP.IC; 13/07408-5 - Social representations about the consumption in the hipermercados Marília-SP, BP.IC; 13/03350-2 - The spatial structure and population mobility: the organization of the transport network and accessibility to the sectors of trade and services in mid-sized cities, BP.PD; 13/03287-9 - Logic of space franchisees branch of clothing and footwear from commercial: medium-sized cities and consumption (Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto), BP.IC; 12/24530-6 - Socio-economic cohesion and contemporary spatial practices: cities of medium size and consumption, BP.IC; 12/24404-0 - Urban centralities and interface relationships in the city of Presidente Prudente - SP: justification for new programs / architectural practices, BP.IC; 12/24563-1 - The consumption in space: the distribution of commerce and service activities in Brazil, BP.PD; 12/24967-5 - The relationships of interface in nightlife practices in the cities of Presidente Prudente - SP and Londrina-PR: a study from Facebook, BP.IC; 12/21808-3 - Social practices of teenagers at a mall in Presidente Prudente: space, time, social control and consumption, BP.IC; 12/19544-8 - The spatial interactions 'inter-scalar: the potential consumption of medium-sized cities in the urban network, BP.PD; 12/13087-4 - Consumption, practices and social representations: changes from the gated low-and middle standard in Presidente Prudente and São Carlos, BP.MS; 12/21058-4 - Middle cities and commercial spaces: similarities and differences, BE.PQ; 12/17978-0 - Social practices in both malls of Presidente Prudente: connections and/or disconnections with urban spaces?, BP.IC - associated scholarships

Abstract

This research project has the relationship between urban restructuring and the restructuring of the city as its central point of interest, taking consumption as its reference, which is considered under three analytical schemes: 1) the new cohesion of the location of businesses which stem from the strategies of economic agents driven by expansion and diversification of consumption, generating new socio-spatial practices among those making use of urban space; 2) these practices, along with cohesion, redefine the process of urban structure, promoting urban restructuring and introducing urban networks on a more comprehensive scale, showing a more complex urban division of labour as well as vectors expressing the broader processes of the global economy and the globalization of values; 3) they refocus the process of the structuring of urban space; a restructuring of cities can be seen, expressing a new socio-economic division of space, revealing deepening socio-spatial inequalities as well as the reconstruction of socio-spatial differences, now driven, furthermore, by new forms of consumption. For the purposes of this research, these three analytical schemes make sense essentially as a means of including subjective and objective, economic and social conditions in the analysis. Socio-spatial practices and economic cohesion are seen in this project as an opportunity to take a reading of the transformation in urban areas and in the cities, which is the central focus of the analysis. Consumption is seen as the best means of understanding these practices and logic at the present time, even though it was not in itself regarded as the object of our investigation. The point of view justifying taking consumption as the means of understanding these practices and logic finds strong support in the ideas of Bourdin (2005, p.49), who suggests that consumption has changed in intensity and content, as well as status, along with the rest of the world, linking with a tendency towards individualization of experience and processes of differentiation. (AU)