Mobility in Dourados/MS, Maringá/PR and Ituiutaba/MG: between practices and possibilities under the fragmentary logic

• Grant number: 22/13826-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2022
• End date: October 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Eda Maria Góes
• Grantee: Thales Pereira Cordeiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/07701-8 - Socio-spatial fragmentation and Brazilian urbanization: scales, vectors, rhythms, forms and contents FragUrb, AP.TEM

Abstract

Mobility as one of the attributes of urban life, as a possibility of articulation or also of distancing between citizens, depending on how urban mobility makes living in cities possible. With the development of the research (11/2018 - 09/2022), the relevance of the routes home - work - home was evidenced from the interviews that the team has carried out with urban residents of the cities surveyed. In addition, the context of pandemic isolation experienced between 2020 and 2021 indicated possibilities identified as "active mobility", especially with the use of bicycles (López, 2020; Soares, 2020; Barbiero, 2020), which should deserve more attention, which goes to the meeting the principles that guide the first "National Urban Mobility Policy" (PNMU, law 12,587 of 01/03/2012). It is in the convergence between these two aspects that this Scientific Initiation Work Plan intends to contribute to the objectives of the FragUrb Thematic Project, directing its attention to the cities of Dourados/MS, Maringá/PR and Ituiutaba/MG.