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| Author(s): |
Jaime Tadeu Oliva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2004-11-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos;
Gloria da Anunciacao Alves;
Jorge Luiz Barbosa;
Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira;
Maria Irene de Queiroz Ferreira Szmrecsanyi
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| Advisor: | Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos |
| Abstract | |
Taking as reference a concept of Geography that views geographical space as a building block of society, as an instance of society (Milton Santos) or a transversal dimension of society (Jacques Lévy), this paper seeks to qualify the restructuring of the city of São Paulo, begun in the 1980s, which resulted from the vast dissemination of private automobile usage. This paper addresses itself to characterize the nature of the new spaces arising from the city automobile relationship, and to assess how the city is modulated by the spaces of the automobile. Our specific reference will be the definition of city as the key space for human sociability, a process apprehended by the concept of urbanity and seen as the most efficient form of managing spatial distance (Jacques Lévy), wherein spaces are structured in two main modes: the territorial form (predominance of contiguity) and the reticular form (networks, predominance of lacunae). In São Paulo, the dissemination of the automobile contributes to establish geographical networks that fragment the city and create an urban horizon of separations and segregations. In such a framework, the most typical spatial structure comprises what we call nuclei of low territorialization, which are associated with the use of the automobile. These network nuclei deny the city, much as the U.S. suburbs negated the city centers of American towns, and function as if they were suburbs grafted into the dense nucleus of the city. For this reason, they can also be called internal suburbs, inasmuch as they maintain minimal relationships with contiguous spaces. This type of restructuring degrades the urbanity of a city, deteriorates public spaces and opens the way for the predominance of private solutions to the predicaments of cities. (AU) | |