Comparative metropolitan development: Los Angeles and São Paulo

• Grant number: 12/50551-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning
• Agreement: University of Southern California
• Principal Investigator: Silvio Soares Macedo
• Grantee: Silvio Soares Macedo
• Principal researcher abroad: Eric Heikkila
• Institution abroad: University of Southern California (USC), United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/51260-7 - The open spaces systems in the Brazilian urban form constitution: production and appropriation Quapá-Sel II, AP.TEM

Abstract

The objective of the proposal is to develop a research agenda to deepen our collective understanding of how housing policies, transportation and land use planning, environmental protection and economic development strategies can be formulated more effectively in both São Paulo and Los Angeles, with each learning lessons from the other. As the initial activities, it has been scheduled one research seminar to be held in São Paulo, next August, and a following one in the first semester of 2012 in Los Angeles, to detail the agenda. (AU)