Monitoring, gathering, critical analysis and dissemination of dissertations and theses about the cities of São Paulo: a partnership between UrbanData-Brasil: database on urban Brazil and the Center for Metropolitan Studies

• Grant number: 18/25523-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Marta Teresa da Silva Arretche
• Grantee: Marcelo Mikley Vinturini
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies, AP.CEPID

Abstract

Founded in the early 1990s, UrbanData-Brasil: Databank on Urban Brazil locates, collects and organizes bibliographical data, disseminating access to cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research on Brazil's urban issues. The project presently collates more than 16,000 bibliographic entries. Within the context of the partnership between UrbanData-Brasil and the Center for Metropolitan Studies, the research assistant will join the production the electronic catalog Theses and Dissertations on Urban São Paulo (1945-2015).Keywords: bibliographic research; São Paulo; graduate studies; databank; urban studies.