Urban space financing processes: the Porta Nuova project

• Grant number: 17/04039-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2017
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Manoel Antonio Lopes Rodrigues Alves
• Grantee: Laura Adami Nogueira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present work is based on the proposal to continue research in scientific initiation developed with LEAUC and NAPUrb that address issues about the production of contemporary urban space. In this context, taking as an empirical object or urban redevelopment project Porta Nuova, in the city of Milan. The choice of the city of Milan appears due to a graduation exchange that will be realized by the University of Milan Polytechnic in the period of 2017 and 2018.It is almost unanimous that urban requalification projects are responsible for conferring or returning quality to the physical and social environment of changing spaces. In this context, the research focuses on the causal relationship between intervention projects in special areas of the city and their products from a theoretical perspective that analyzes the processes of finance in urban space. It is about everything and questions the instruments by which the project of market management of the city is established, as well as its social consequences and for the space of the city. In São Paulo, with the performance of the Consortium Urban Operations with the Porta Nuova Project, it is questioned how these instruments contribute to a logic of reproduction of the financial capital in the city space, promoting transformations that do not always aid in the solution of social demands, Rather than facilities for the installation and perpetuation of private interests in the city. (AU)