Manifesto for the Just City: Professor Mariana Fix and Financialisation of the City.
Channel: Centre for the Just City
Date: 2021-10-18

On MONDAY 18 OCT 2021 at 19:00 (CET/Amsterdam time)  the Manifesto for the Just City featured Professor Mariana Fix from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Mariana spoke about the capitalist city, production of urban space under neoliberalism and financialisation. Mariana Fix is the author of the books “Partners in Exclusion” (Parceiros da exclusão, 2001) and “São Paulo, Global City” (São Paulo, Cidade Global, 2007), both published in Brazil by Boitempo Editorial. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Campinas (2012), a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (2003), and a professional degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1996). She was IIAS Re-Theorizing Housing as Architecture Research Fellow, 2019-2020 (https://openscholar.huji.ac.il/iias/re-theorizing-housing) and was a visiting research scholar at CUNY’s Graduate Centre as an Urban Studies Foundation fellow from November 2012 to March 2013. She is a member of the Housing and Human Settlements Laboratory at FAU-USP, and has been working with Right to the City organizations for several years.