Monitoring, collecting, critical analysis and dissemination of theses and dissertations on urban São Paulo - a partnership between UrbanData-Brasil: banco da dados sobre o Brasil Urbano and Centro de Estudos da Metrópole

• Grant number: 20/15248-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2020
• End date: March 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
• Grantee: Beatriz Athayde Silva Lobo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). 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).