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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518680.v1
title: Old processes and new trends in the contemporary North American urbanization

description: Suburbanization remains as a dominant feature of contemporary urbanization in the United States (US Census Bureau, 2010), having contributed to the disinvestment and decline in inner urban areas. Renewal projects have been growing in consensus with neoliberal political and economic strategies and have often resulted in gentrification – a phenomenon with extensive reference in Neil Smith’s works. Meanwhile, two trends have been strengthened, introducing new socio-spatial relations into the urban dynamics. Distinct by nature, the gated communities and the New Urbanism theory have been progressively incorporated in the scope of the urban and suburban projects that seek quality, sustainability and/or to balance inequalities. Empirical evidence found in Las Vegas Valley illustrates how this complex scenario has taken place in practice.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512830
title: Gentrification in the neighborhood 2 de Julho, in Salvador: modes, forms and contents

description: The purpose of this article is to understand the recent urban restructuring processes that have taken shape in the historic center of Salvador, particularly the corporate and governmental actions supported by the logic of gentrification and privatization of the urban space. The analysis focuses on the proposal for intervention in the Neighborhood 2 de Julho, in order to understand how this process has taken place in this area, which has been recognized by Unesco as a World Heritage site. In the private developments supported by the government, social exclusion processes are evident. They are produced by an exclusionary model of urban planning based on a conception of corporate urbanism that uses mechanisms of devaluation and revaluation of the historic-cultural heritage. This contributes to facilitate and expand the process of resignification of the urban heritage and the expulsion of the poor population.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512830.v1
title: Gentrification in the neighborhood 2 de Julho, in Salvador: modes, forms and contents

description: The purpose of this article is to understand the recent urban restructuring processes that have taken shape in the historic center of Salvador, particularly the corporate and governmental actions supported by the logic of gentrification and privatization of the urban space. The analysis focuses on the proposal for intervention in the Neighborhood 2 de Julho, in order to understand how this process has taken place in this area, which has been recognized by Unesco as a World Heritage site. In the private developments supported by the government, social exclusion processes are evident. They are produced by an exclusionary model of urban planning based on a conception of corporate urbanism that uses mechanisms of devaluation and revaluation of the historic-cultural heritage. This contributes to facilitate and expand the process of resignification of the urban heritage and the expulsion of the poor population.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517567
title: Reflections on the concept and occurrence of the gentrification process in the Parque Histórico do Pelourinho, Salvador – BA

description: Gentrification is an urban process that usually occurs in central or downtown historic neighborhoods. Being associated with the transformations that took place soon after the decade of 1930, it implies the replacement of a low-income population by another, more prosperous, one. These characteristics provide this object of study with a specific spatial, historical and social outline. The analysis of the gentrification process can be divided into three stages. The first presents a reflection on the concept, the second analyzes some case studies, and the third discusses the case study of the Parque Histórico do Pelourinho (Historic Park of Pelourinho), in the city of Salvador, which encompasses three traditional neighborhoods: Maciel, Carmo and Santo Antonio Além do Carmo.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517567.v1
title: Reflections on the concept and occurrence of the gentrification process in the Parque Histórico do Pelourinho, Salvador – BA

description: Gentrification is an urban process that usually occurs in central or downtown historic neighborhoods. Being associated with the transformations that took place soon after the decade of 1930, it implies the replacement of a low-income population by another, more prosperous, one. These characteristics provide this object of study with a specific spatial, historical and social outline. The analysis of the gentrification process can be divided into three stages. The first presents a reflection on the concept, the second analyzes some case studies, and the third discusses the case study of the Parque Histórico do Pelourinho (Historic Park of Pelourinho), in the city of Salvador, which encompasses three traditional neighborhoods: Maciel, Carmo and Santo Antonio Além do Carmo.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513595
title: Revitalization to whom? Urban policy and gentrification in Downtown Santos

description: The article discusses, based on Neil Smith’s concept of gentrification, the process of ennoblement of the city of Santos and of revitalization of the historic center, which has been occurring in the city since the mid-1990s. From the analysis of four municipal administrations – 1997-2000; 2001-2004 (political party: PPB); and 2005-2008; 2009-2012 (political party: PMDB) – and their urban planning policies, we interpret how pro-market views concerning the urban theme have influenced the gentrification of the city and the gentrification of the downtown area, added to the lack of a policy of social inclusion of residents of slums and substandard housing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513595.v1
title: Revitalization to whom? Urban policy and gentrification in Downtown Santos

description: The article discusses, based on Neil Smith’s concept of gentrification, the process of ennoblement of the city of Santos and of revitalization of the historic center, which has been occurring in the city since the mid-1990s. From the analysis of four municipal administrations – 1997-2000; 2001-2004 (political party: PPB); and 2005-2008; 2009-2012 (political party: PMDB) – and their urban planning policies, we interpret how pro-market views concerning the urban theme have influenced the gentrification of the city and the gentrification of the downtown area, added to the lack of a policy of social inclusion of residents of slums and substandard housing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513517
title: Museums and urban revitalization: Museu de Artes e Ofícios and Praça da Estação in Belo Horizonte

description: One of the main conditions in which the birth of new museums is observed are the museums that are implemented during the urban revitalization process. If what is intended with these initiatives is to give “new life” to areas that were previously considered “degraded”, it is worth asking what role these institutions should play in these processes. In view of the fact that in Brazil, in the late twentieth century and in the beginning of the current century, several urban regeneration proposals and projects were developed, we selected the process of implementation of the Museu de Artes e Ofícios (Museum of Arts and Trades – MAO) as the target of the present investigation, as well as its connection with the urban revitalization process of part of the central region of the city of Belo Horizonte.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513517.v1
title: Museums and urban revitalization: Museu de Artes e Ofícios and Praça da Estação in Belo Horizonte

description: One of the main conditions in which the birth of new museums is observed are the museums that are implemented during the urban revitalization process. If what is intended with these initiatives is to give “new life” to areas that were previously considered “degraded”, it is worth asking what role these institutions should play in these processes. In view of the fact that in Brazil, in the late twentieth century and in the beginning of the current century, several urban regeneration proposals and projects were developed, we selected the process of implementation of the Museu de Artes e Ofícios (Museum of Arts and Trades – MAO) as the target of the present investigation, as well as its connection with the urban revitalization process of part of the central region of the city of Belo Horizonte.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512158
title: Ain’t got no home, for this reason I live on the street. The homeless population: dwellers or trespassers?

description: This article analyzes the evictions faced by the homeless during the preparations of Rio de Janeiro for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, framed by social conflicts in favor of the right to the city, by juxtaposing urban security for the elites and disrespect for the rights of subaltern classes. The media’s and the official discourses classify the homeless as those who “live on the streets”, naturalizing their “home-less” condition and establishing the myth that, despite not having a home, that population inhabit somewhere. This process tends to empty the conflicting nature of the social relations that operate within the cities, such as the real reasons for the economic and social exclusion, thus accentuating opportunities for huge real estate investments in accelerated gentrification processes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512158.v1
title: Ain’t got no home, for this reason I live on the street. The homeless population: dwellers or trespassers?

description: This article analyzes the evictions faced by the homeless during the preparations of Rio de Janeiro for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, framed by social conflicts in favor of the right to the city, by juxtaposing urban security for the elites and disrespect for the rights of subaltern classes. The media’s and the official discourses classify the homeless as those who “live on the streets”, naturalizing their “home-less” condition and establishing the myth that, despite not having a home, that population inhabit somewhere. This process tends to empty the conflicting nature of the social relations that operate within the cities, such as the real reasons for the economic and social exclusion, thus accentuating opportunities for huge real estate investments in accelerated gentrification processes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507712
title: From mud to chaos: an estuary called Guanabara Bay

description: This paper aims to analyze the “water flow” in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the unequal power relations involved in its management, and the consequence of this situation in peripheral areas. To this end, we carried out a literature review, interviews with managers, water users and civil society representatives, and analyzed the Water User Registration provided by the governing body. We verified that in the context of social and spatial mutations linked to industrialization and to huge investments for a (new) cleaning-up of Guanabara Bay, the guarantee of access to water, as well as the treatment given to users, continues to vary significantly in Rio de Janeiro.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507712.v1
title: From mud to chaos: an estuary called Guanabara Bay

description: This paper aims to analyze the “water flow” in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the unequal power relations involved in its management, and the consequence of this situation in peripheral areas. To this end, we carried out a literature review, interviews with managers, water users and civil society representatives, and analyzed the Water User Registration provided by the governing body. We verified that in the context of social and spatial mutations linked to industrialization and to huge investments for a (new) cleaning-up of Guanabara Bay, the guarantee of access to water, as well as the treatment given to users, continues to vary significantly in Rio de Janeiro.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511426
title: Water management and sustainability: global challenges and local responses from the case study of Seropédica, Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro

description: This paper addresses the territorial development and the water issue of the region covered by the Sepetiba Sedimentary Basin, where the municipality of Seropédica is located, in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. From a typo-morphological investigation on the regional scale, it seeks to approach the basin’s relationship to the water supplying for the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro; the presence of the Piranema Aquifer, which has been in permanent environmental risk due to sand extraction activities; the urban/industrial growth due to investments in course; and the precarious urban infrastructure, especially sewage and rainwater drainage systems. Qualitative and quantitative data on the potentialities and fragilities of the territory are presented in the regional scale. Locally, we propose interventions and good practices to mitigate the water problems that have been verified in the urban nuclei.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511426.v1
title: Water management and sustainability: global challenges and local responses from the case study of Seropédica, Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro

description: This paper addresses the territorial development and the water issue of the region covered by the Sepetiba Sedimentary Basin, where the municipality of Seropédica is located, in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. From a typo-morphological investigation on the regional scale, it seeks to approach the basin’s relationship to the water supplying for the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro; the presence of the Piranema Aquifer, which has been in permanent environmental risk due to sand extraction activities; the urban/industrial growth due to investments in course; and the precarious urban infrastructure, especially sewage and rainwater drainage systems. Qualitative and quantitative data on the potentialities and fragilities of the territory are presented in the regional scale. Locally, we propose interventions and good practices to mitigate the water problems that have been verified in the urban nuclei.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517456
title: Gentrification of the modernistic city: Brasília

description: This article investigates the occurrence of gentrification in Brasília. There is criticism in relation to economic and social costs, to the effects of panoptic architecture in society, and especially to the State’s role and level of intervention, present in the high degree of urban regulation and in the monopoly of the land market. All these factors restrict the housing supply, and result in a pattern of territorial occupation framed in the city model called COM-FUSA (CON-FUSED), compact and diffused in the territory. Widespread gentrification is perceived in the statement that Brasília is the automobile city, which is revealed by the largest proportion of cars per inhabitants, and mainly by the amount of cars for use in the fields. It is observed that the housing deficit problem is not related to land scarcity, but to property scarcity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517456.v1
title: Gentrification of the modernistic city: Brasília

description: This article investigates the occurrence of gentrification in Brasília. There is criticism in relation to economic and social costs, to the effects of panoptic architecture in society, and especially to the State’s role and level of intervention, present in the high degree of urban regulation and in the monopoly of the land market. All these factors restrict the housing supply, and result in a pattern of territorial occupation framed in the city model called COM-FUSA (CON-FUSED), compact and diffused in the territory. Widespread gentrification is perceived in the statement that Brasília is the automobile city, which is revealed by the largest proportion of cars per inhabitants, and mainly by the amount of cars for use in the fields. It is observed that the housing deficit problem is not related to land scarcity, but to property scarcity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507388.v1
title: The technical-political construction of metropolitan governance

description: This article aims to discuss a pertinent theory to the analysis of problems concerning metropolitan planning and management. It starts from the idea of “adaptive planning” (Clementino and Almeida, 2011) and from the concept of “mal público metropolitano” (public problems that spread over the metropolitan space) developed by Lacerda (2011) in the formulation of a collective action model for metropolitan areas. It proposes the inclusion of a new element in Matus’ (1996) “overall positive management balance” in order to analyze intergovernmental cooperation for the solution of common problems, particularly in Brazil, and to propose ways to solve the “mal público metropolitano”. The expectation is to contribute to the debate about urban and metropolitan governance in Latin America based on a new conception that is theoretically and methodologically supported by the concept of collective action, developed from systematization and from relevant and up-to-date literature.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507388
title: The technical-political construction of metropolitan governance

description: This article aims to discuss a pertinent theory to the analysis of problems concerning metropolitan planning and management. It starts from the idea of “adaptive planning” (Clementino and Almeida, 2011) and from the concept of “mal público metropolitano” (public problems that spread over the metropolitan space) developed by Lacerda (2011) in the formulation of a collective action model for metropolitan areas. It proposes the inclusion of a new element in Matus’ (1996) “overall positive management balance” in order to analyze intergovernmental cooperation for the solution of common problems, particularly in Brazil, and to propose ways to solve the “mal público metropolitano”. The expectation is to contribute to the debate about urban and metropolitan governance in Latin America based on a new conception that is theoretically and methodologically supported by the concept of collective action, developed from systematization and from relevant and up-to-date literature.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512476
title: The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo as an innovation center in Brazil

description: Abstract Little by little, knowledge has ceased to be a thing related to the spirit and has become a thing related to money. The social relations established in the act of knowing have been progressively submitted to capital, and innovation is being viewed from the perspective of exchange and value. Such perspective guides this discussion, which considers innovation an urban resource, viewed from the relationship between the innovative industry and the urban dimension. This enables us to understand why the metropolitan region of São Paulo is the country’s innovation center. This condition reveals a new element of social and territorial differentiation of the Brazilian development that should not reinforce inequality. Differences exist and need to be understood; however, they cannot be translated as sources of inequalities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512476.v1
title: The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo as an innovation center in Brazil

description: Abstract Little by little, knowledge has ceased to be a thing related to the spirit and has become a thing related to money. The social relations established in the act of knowing have been progressively submitted to capital, and innovation is being viewed from the perspective of exchange and value. Such perspective guides this discussion, which considers innovation an urban resource, viewed from the relationship between the innovative industry and the urban dimension. This enables us to understand why the metropolitan region of São Paulo is the country’s innovation center. This condition reveals a new element of social and territorial differentiation of the Brazilian development that should not reinforce inequality. Differences exist and need to be understood; however, they cannot be translated as sources of inequalities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512128
title: Fragmentation of a precarization scale. References to conventional urban structuring

description: Developing countries play the role of supplying the contemporary economy. The territorial and social conditions of the place refer to the scale fragmentation process and to the increase in the poor population because there is a tendency of unrestricted use of land in order to convert it into an urban and productive place. In the Mexican case, the loss of land used for agricultural purposes implies a reduction in basic food production for the population, particularly corn. Furthermore, the substitution of forests and woodlands is associated with the overexploitation of aquifers in the country’s most populated region. In addition, the records of low housing conditions indicate that a little more than 60% of the population are in this situation, which does not justify the adoption of such strategies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512128.v1
title: Fragmentation of a precarization scale. References to conventional urban structuring

description: Developing countries play the role of supplying the contemporary economy. The territorial and social conditions of the place refer to the scale fragmentation process and to the increase in the poor population because there is a tendency of unrestricted use of land in order to convert it into an urban and productive place. In the Mexican case, the loss of land used for agricultural purposes implies a reduction in basic food production for the population, particularly corn. Furthermore, the substitution of forests and woodlands is associated with the overexploitation of aquifers in the country’s most populated region. In addition, the records of low housing conditions indicate that a little more than 60% of the population are in this situation, which does not justify the adoption of such strategies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511621
title: Territorialism and the development policy: territory production strategies in Brazil

description: Abstract The historical-geographical formation process of the Brazilian society was conducted by modernity promises in which the notion of development, derived from the notion of progress, was the social fuel that sustained the movement of inclusion of capitalist relations in Brazil in the 20th century. The prevailing idea in governmental action has been the overcoming of regional inequality through the inclusion of Brazilian regions in the capitalism competitive circuit. This paper argues that this discourse has been a strategy of territory production, typical of hegemonic agents within the capitalist reproduction circuit. To understand this process, this paper revisits a geographical notion that has been forgotten: territorialism.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511621.v1
title: Territorialism and the development policy: territory production strategies in Brazil

description: Abstract The historical-geographical formation process of the Brazilian society was conducted by modernity promises in which the notion of development, derived from the notion of progress, was the social fuel that sustained the movement of inclusion of capitalist relations in Brazil in the 20th century. The prevailing idea in governmental action has been the overcoming of regional inequality through the inclusion of Brazilian regions in the capitalism competitive circuit. This paper argues that this discourse has been a strategy of territory production, typical of hegemonic agents within the capitalist reproduction circuit. To understand this process, this paper revisits a geographical notion that has been forgotten: territorialism.