The private sector foments the leisure in São Paulo: the experience of the Parque Shangai (1937-1968)

• Grant number: 14/25057-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Atique
• Grantee: Hennan Gessi
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research seeks to highlight the participation of the private sector in the process of dissemination of leisure spaces in São Paulo through the analysis of one experience: the Parque Shanghai, a private enterprise created in São Paulo during the 1930´s in the context of its expansion. The research will examine, with special care, textual and iconographic sourcestrying to understand the way which this equipment occupied in the city, at a time when the question of leisure was being introduced, dialoguing with the achievements in labor, the expansion of demands for new spaces and the debates around regulation of the leisure right. (AU)