Everyday life and spatial practices related to Architecture and Urbanism: a case study about the Luz neighborhood, at São Paulo downtown

• Grant number: 11/22621-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning
• Principal Investigator: Vera Maria Pallamin
• Grantee: Brunna Laboissiere Ferreira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research is based on concerns of contemporary everyday life, considered in the context of spatial practices of certain situations present in the Sao Paulo metropolis. This concept of everyday life is studied by the dialectic between alienation and appropriation, between exchange value and use-value, as elaborated in the works of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau, considering like empirical field the specialization forms of the current disputes present in the Sao Paulo's downtown - where the State and private enterprise intends to undertake a series of urban renewal projects -, with the main focus currently ongoing conflicts in the region of Luz.(AU)