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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor at the Department of Geography at USP and accredited to the Postgraduate Program in Human Geography (PPGH), César Simoni Santos obtained the title of PhD in Human Geography in 2013, performing part of his research work linked to the Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is a member of the Radical Critical Urban Geography Study Group (GESP), was a researcher at the Support Center for Research in Urbanization and Globalization (NAPurb), took part in the international network of Spatial Justice/Justice Spatiale, based in France, in 2014, is member of the Critical Urban Theory Group of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA-USP), he is coordinator (leader) of the LIMIARES: Limites da Acumulação e Reprodução do espaço (Thresholds: Accumulation Limits and Space Reproduction) Research Group, was also a researcher in the HIGHRISE project, developed between the University of São Paulo and the University of Lyon-Lumière 2 and funded by FAPESP and ANR and coordinator of the academic agreement signed with the Geographischen Institut of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. He was Visiting Professor in the Geography and Planning Graduate Program at the University of Toronto (U of T), as part of the Bousfield Distinguished Visitorship in Planning, and was a fellow of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) during the postdoctoral (International Fellowship) held in Canada. He has experience in research in the field of Geography, with an emphasis on Human Geography, working mainly on the following themes: production of urban and regional space, urbanization of the Brazilian territory and reproduction of contemporary urban-metropolitan space. He was coordinator of the graduate program in Human Geography at USP between 2019 and 2021. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Since the last decades of the 20th century, there has been a complexification of center-periphery relations in Latin American metropolises, which involves the production of new corporate centralities located outside their historic centers. Intraurban frontiers have been transformed and multiplied through processes of dispossession permeated by economic strategies developed in the real est…
From the 1960s on, the devaluation of São Paulo's central areas has been in progress. Caused, among other reasons, by the emergence of new centralities, more specialized and equipped to meet the new demands of the financial capital, the process is part of the dynamics of the valuation of capital invested in the real estate circuit, an essential movement for the reproduction of capital. Th…
The research aims to contribute to the understanding of the current processes of centrality production in new areas of the metropolis of São Paulo. We intend to investigate transformations in the reproduction of space and in the territorial disputes that result in the alteration of the frontiers between central and non-central areas. Our conception of centrality involves a sense of domina…
This research project focuses on the current process of production of new urban centralities in the metropolis of São Paulo, dealing, more specifically, with the Arco Jurubatuba Urban Intervention Project. In it, we intend to investigate how new centralities are built through strategies that articulate political and economical interests, which are not immediately convergent. The notion of…
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The present international internship project is part of the master's degree research "Dispossession and space control in the production of the conditions of centrality: Santo Amaro as the southern frontier of the Southwest Axis". That research aims to analyze a current process of centrality production in the metropolis of São Paulo, specifically in the Santo Amaro district. Based on a hyp…
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