High-rise living and the inclusive city

• Grant number: 16/50278-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning
• Agreement: ANR
• Principal Investigator: Manoel Antonio Lopes Rodrigues Alves
• Grantee: Manoel Antonio Lopes Rodrigues Alves
• Principal researcher abroad: Christian Montés
• Institution abroad: Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/10428-4 - High rise living and the inclusive city, BP.TT; 18/18795-3 - High-rise living and the inclusive city, BP.TT; 18/19067-1 - High-rise living and the inclusive city, BP.TT; + associated scholarships 18/18514-4 - Emporis database and GIS cartography in the study of new high-rise living typologies and new paradigms of urban space, BP.TT; 18/04967-7 - High-rise living and the inclusive city, BP.TT; 18/01836-9 - High-rise living and the inclusive city, BP.TT - associated scholarships

Abstract

What capacity is left to produce an Inclusive city, in the context of an accelerated verticalization of contemporary metropolises? Promoting a denser city would accommodate further growth and provide housing for the people while limiting urban sprawl. In a context where regulatory capitalism and entrepreneurial municipalities are promoting favorable conditions for developers to control the urban space, verticalization is questionable. Today, residential high-rises are more than architectural solutions, they are commodities m a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and municipalities. By enlightening the making and experience of high-rises, we assess the contemporary transformation of the city under the lenses of inclusiveness. Aiming the construction of a transdisciplinary theoretical framework, we intend to critically question the inclusiveness of contemporary urban space - its new urbanitles, lifestyles and transformations in the public space. To do so, we propose to investigate the residential high-rise phenomenon, in Lyon and São Paulo, considering inclusiveness both as a state and a process, a result and a condition for an equitable urban environment. Framed by the above theoretical framework, the project is rooted in case studies, enabling to reveal different types of local-global negotiations in the making of the city. (AU)