Peter William Lee | University Birmingham - Inglaterra

• Grant number: 15/50416-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: September 15, 2016
• End date: October 04, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Agreement: CONFAP ; Newton Fund, with FAPESP as a partner institution in Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Everaldo Santos Melazzo
• Grantee: Everaldo Santos Melazzo
• Visiting researcher: Peter William Lee
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Birmingham , England
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Presidente Prudente

Abstract

In the 20 days meeting, we will have the following main activities: 1. Meetings of work to prepare a collaborative research project, to be send an funding agency; 2. Meetings for discussion of texts, to familiarize each group of researchers with the interpretative universes of the two traditions of urban research; 3. Field works, to expand the contact of the visiting professor with the reality of middle cities that will be object of study. The debates will be focused the following analytical plans: A. Urban restructuring and cities (comparative studies) B. Public Policy for Social Housing; C. Public Space: production and uses; D. Spatial practices of dwellers. (AU)