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Between practice and discourse: the formation of symbolic spaces in contemporary Florianópolis

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Author(s):
Marina Toneli Siqueira
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
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Examining board members:
Maria Irene de Queiroz Ferreira Szmrecsanyi; Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos; Eduardo Alberto Cusce Nobre
Advisor: Maria Irene de Queiroz Ferreira Szmrecsanyi
Abstract

This research aims to understand the transformations that Florianópolis has been passing in the last decades, mainly in the speech about it and in the spaces considered its symbols. The object of this work, therefore, is the unique process of the citys formation in its materiality and social life under the influence of a new cultural logic that dominates the contemporary capitalism. On the one hand, the work intends to relate the changes derivate from the criticism to the modern project to the ones occurred in the specific field of the urban planning. On the other hand, recognizing the specificity of the contemporary period, called post-modern, it seeks to understand the diverse studies carried through on the thematic to, finally, be able to relate them with the local reality. Were analyzed the dynamics of urban theories and the urban development of Florianópolis, as well as its models of urban governance and planning, emphasizing the formation of new symbolic,spaces, its meaning and form of appropriation. It was focused the confluence of three distinct fields: the municipal managements and the urban policy; the economic interests operating in the city; and the local population, that also could be categorized in accordance with the proper interests of each social class. It also distinguishes the dynamic of the urban theory and the proper urban planning, the urban legislation. As result, this research expects to have contributed with considerations about the transformations in architecture and urban planning since the emergence of post-modernity, emphasizing the symbolic spaces. For the Florianópolis reality, it is expected to comprehend its social and urban development correlated with the characterization of its symbolic spaces - which, why and for whom they are symbolic. Since post-modernity and symbolic spaces are highly polemical research areas, in especial if there is the possibility of the formation of new symbolic spaces in this period, this work intends to propitiate a new approach and understand better this reality. (AU)