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| Author(s): |
Luciana Nicolau Ferrara
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2013-07-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Lucia Refinetti Rodrigues Martins;
Henri Acselrad;
Amelia Luisa Damiani;
Cibele Saliba Rizek
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| Advisor: | Maria Lucia Refinetti Rodrigues Martins |
| Abstract | |
The present work focuses on the process of occupation of water source areas in the south of the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, addressing the conflicts related to the production of infrastructure during the constitution and consolidation of precarious settlements that expanded in the 1990\'s, in São Bernardo do Campo, in the Billings Basin - an area that has been protected by environmental laws since the 1970\'s. From the self-provision of infrastructure, passing through the demand of public networks on behalf of the dwellers, reaching the implementation of urbanization projects, we address the articulations between public and private agents, their spatial practices, as well as the laws and policies regarding water source areas, whose relations mediated by the specificity of the private property, engendered, directly or indirectly, the urban shape of irregular settlements. And, secondly, also created the need for environmental recovery, associating the implementation of public infrastructure with land and urban regulation of social interests. The socio-environmental conflicts that emerged during this process challenged the conceptions and the way infrastructure networks expanded, which extrapolates the local scale, and pointed out the unsteadiness that was established when executing housing and sanitation policies. In this panorama, the fragmentation of the space articulates in the different scales of analysis, making explicit the limits and possibilities, although residual, of a collective and socially fair appropriation of the urban environment. The changes that are taking place in the landscape of water source areas enable us to problematize hegemonic conceptions concerning the new environmental paradigm, based on a critical reflection between society and nature. This study aims at contributing to the debate about the urban \"environmental issue\". (AU) | |