O ideário de Smart City em Campinas (SP): espaço urbano, geotecnologias e desigualdades sócio-espaciais

Author(s)

Lucas Pinto Seixas

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2023-12-06

Examining board members

Lindon Fonseca Matias; Janaina Oliveira Pamplona da Costa; Leighton Evans

• Advisor: Lindon Fonseca Matias

Abstract

During the last decades, globalizing capitalism achieved, due to its high technological development, new and disruptive ways of producing space, by affecting labour, mobility, housing and governing. Regarding urban space, the ideal of smart cities, based on applying technology to different urban structures, started gathering multiple socio-spatial processes, claimed as solution to different contradictions, mainly by State and digital and technological platforms. With the core role played by information in this new capitalist scenario, automatized systems controlled by algorithms need a sturdy georeferenced database, to enable a series of structures to function, constituted as bigdata and producing big analysis. Although the historical and epistemological roots of the ideal of smart cities are connected to modern European relationship with space, because of capitalist globalization, smart cities are present all around the world, even in quite difference contexts, including Campinas – SP. Therefore, this research based on a historical dialectical materialist approach to geographic space and urban space as a product of dialectical tensions among agents producers, aims to investigate the concept of smart city and its distinct definitions, forms, contents and socio-spatial processes, to understand the role played by geotechnologies in the ideal of smart cities and in the specific case of Campinas as well, to analyse the case of Campinas, defining the approach held by the main identified agents acting in this matter and its consequences to urban space and produce chorems both as an investigation method and spatial representation (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 20/16529-4 - The ideal of Smart City and the tecnification of the territory in Campinas (SP)
• Grantee: Lucas Pinto Seixas
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master