The study of place under humanistic geography focus: a place called Paulista Avenue

• Grant number: 08/08873-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2009
• End date: November 30, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Adyr Apparecida Balastreri Rodrigues
• Grantee: Leandro Forgiarini de Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

To study the category of place, by the perspective of the Humanistic Geography enunciates a complex approach about the particularities that act in the accomplishment of the place in certain space. For being closely allied to the human daily experiences, the category of place appears in the center of the discussions proposed by the Humanistic Geographers who engage themselves in the elucidation of the material and symbolic arrangements that form the place. From this conjucture, between the category of place and the Humanistic Geography, it is made the link to an understanding about the places of culture and leisure practiced by the residents in São Paulo City at Paulista Avenue, one of the main "symbols" of this metropolis. Thus, considering the peculiarities that form the daily places, it starts an overlap of the experienced place by the inhabitant in his day by day with the appropriate places by visitors in their tourism practices. Thus, it becomes possible to analyze the dynamics that transform the space, often indifferent or reject, in intimately relational places. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GONÇALVES, Leandro Forgiarini de. The study of place under humanistic geography focus: a place called Paulista Avenue. 2011. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.