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| Author(s): |
Eduardo Augusto Wellendorf Sombini
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2013-02-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Adriana Maria Bernardes da Silva;
Julia Santos Cossermelli de Andrade;
Ricardo Mendes Antas Junior
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| Advisor: | Adriana Maria Bernardes da Silva |
| Abstract | |
Among the many facets assumed by contemporary urbanization, the processes of refunctionalisation and revalorization of urban centers have played a prominent role in public and private strategies of territorial reorganization across the world. Previously restricted to a few cities of advanced capitalism, from the 1990s this process has spread globally and reached, with the mediations of socio-spatial formations and places, various cities of the peripheral countries. After long periods of housing devalorization and migration of part of the activities of the upper circuit of the urban economy, the historical centers have been focus of interventions that seek to mobilize the material and symbolic attributes of these subspaces as an instrument of urban policy toward the investment attraction, consumers and tourists and the creation of hegemonic cities image. Many Brazilian cities, following widespread international experience, has focused on the assertion of cultural uses and attracting informational activities as ideal catalysts for urban transformations intended to central areas. Since the 1990s, these views have been the major supporters of the project of revalorization of downtown São Paulo and since then has been joined both the state land planning policies and strategies from various economic agents, deepening the corporate urbanization of the metropolis. In this work, we propose to analyze the explanatory variables of the contemporary revalorization of the center of Sao Paulo (2005-2012), considering the social agents involved, the concepts that guide the actions, the technical and political instruments mobilized and the struggles over the use of the territory of the center of São Paulo, in order to help structure a reflection on the connections that build the current hegemonic project of reorganization of the territory of the central area of the metropolis (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04259-0 - The contemporary revalorization of the inner city of São Paulo: agents, conceptions and instruments of the corporative urbanization (2005-2011) |
| Grantee: | Eduardo Augusto Wellendorf Sombini |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |