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

• Grant number: 20/08116-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2020
• End date: October 17, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
• Grantee: Ísis Gabrielle Belon Fernandes
• 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).