scholarly journals A constituição espacial de uma cidade portuária através dos ciclos produtivos industriais: o caso do município do Rio Grande (1874-1970)

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solismar Fraga Martins ◽  
Margareth Afeche Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
The City

Rio Grande, cidade portuária e primeira demarcação lusitana nas terras rio-grandenses apresentou um rápido processo de industrialização no final do século XIX, resultado da acumulação de capital comercial, proveniente das atividades de importação e exportação. Celeremente, plantas industriais com base produtiva diversificada foram instaladas, expandindo a antiga cidade comercial e conformando o espaço urbano através da introdução de novas estruturas produtivas e de uma excelente base técnica que conformaram os sentidos da expansão urbana, compondo, de forma dual, movimento de renovação arquitetônica em moldes europeus e vilas operárias. Tal realidade se manteve até 1950, quando a economia industrial começa a dar mostras de debilidade, restringindo ou fechando parte de seu parque fabril. De forma paralela, ocorre uma proliferação de todo tipo de loteamento privado, originando as “vilas” periféricas e ocasionando a ruptura entre a cidade e a indústria.Palavras-chave: configuração espacial urbana; ciclos produtivos industriais; história urbana; vilas operárias; patrimônio arquitetônico. Abstract: Rio Grande, a city with an harbor, and the first Portuguese landmark in the Rio Grande do Sul state, presented a fast industrialization process at the end of the nineteenth century, due to commercial capital accumulation originated from import and export activities. Quickly, industrial plants of different sectors were established, enlarging the old commercial city and modeling the urban space through the introduction of new productive structures and excellent technical basis that defined the trends of the urban expansion, composed both by an architectural renewal movement based on the European model and workers’ villages. Such reality was kept until 1950, when the industrial economy began to show economical weakness, restraining or closing part of its industrial park. Simultaneously, a proliferation of all kinds of private lots took place in the city, creating peripheral villages and provoking the rupture between the city and the industrial activity.Keywords: urban spatial configuration; industrial productive cycles; urban history; workers’ villages; architectural patrimony.

scholarly journals Porto Alegre: a perdida cidade una (Fragmentos de modernidade e exclusão social no Sul do Brasil)

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Pereira Elmir
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
De Se ◽  
Brazilian History ◽  
The City

O texto compreende uma discussão sobre o processo de modernização na cidade de Porto Alegre em vários momentos de sua história, articulando as transformações e modificações havidas no espaço urbano com uma paralela segregação social operada e/ou desejada na cidade. São recolhidos vários exemplos para demonstrar a vontade de se construir uma “cidade una”, na qual não se admite o convívio com os indesejados sociais. A combinação modernização/exclusão social, tantas vezes já abordada em diversos estudos da historiografia brasileira, encontra neste artigo mais um exercício de aproximação, a partir do qual pode-se vislumbrar momentos distintos – sem traçar uma linha de continuidade – desta operação específica da modernidade. Abstract The text discusses the process of modernization in the city of Porto Alegre during various moments of its history, debating both transformations and modifications in the city’s urban space along with a social segregation that was either going on or being wished for at that time. Many exemples are given so as to demonstrate the desire to build a “united city” in which those who were socially unwished were not allowed. The combination of modernization with social exclusion, so often discussed in many other studies of Brazilian history, is shown in this article as another approach to the issue of modernization with its distinct moments. Palavras-chave: Rio Grande do Sul. Séculos XIX e XX. Identidade. Key words: Rio Grande do Sul. XIX & XX centuries. Identity.

Ceasefire City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The City

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running armed conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of everyday life, lived realities of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

scholarly journals Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2163-2180
Author(s):  
Mara Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Since re-democratisation, Brazil has experienced a slow but continuous process of urban reform, with the introduction of legal and institutional developments that favour participatory democracy in urban policy. Legal innovations such as the City Statute have been celebrated for expanding the ‘right to the city’ to marginalised populations. While most studies examine the struggles of the urban poor, I focus on middle-class citizens, showing how such legal developments have unevenly affected the ways in which different social groups are able to impact the production of urban space. The two cases explored in this study concern residents’ struggles to preserve their middle-class neighbourhoods against change triggered by projects related to the hosting of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The first looks at the Musas Street residents’ fight against the construction of a luxury hotel in their neighbourhood, while the second examines the Pampulha residents’ struggle against the presence of street vendors and football fans in their streets. My findings show that through the articulation of legal discourses, middle-class claims on the need for preserving the environment and the city’s cultural heritage are legitimised by the actions of the local state. The article thus looks beyond neoliberalism, showing that socio-spatial segregation and inequality should not be regarded solely as the product of state–capital alliances for engendering capital accumulation through spatial restructuring, but also as the result of the uneven capacities of those living in the city to access the state resources and legitimise certain forms of inhabitance of urban space.

scholarly journals Crítica al registro de nuevas incorporaciones urbanas

UVserva ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Lilly Areli Sánchez Correa ◽  
Ma Guadalupe Noemi Uehara Guerrero ◽  
Arturo Velázquez Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
The Common ◽  
Reliable Knowledge ◽  
Population Counts ◽  
The City

La expansión urbana, como uno de los tipos de crecimiento de la ciudad, es analizada a partir de las causas que originan diversas posibilidades de orientación y emplazamiento de la población, en función de sus capacidades socio económicas y preferencias en la selección del sitio para habitar. De esta forma, el espacio urbano dinamiza su configuración por la creación constante de unidades que se agregan a la ciudad inicial, ocupadas por población de diferentes estratos sociales pero con el común denominador de estar inmersos, en cualquiera de sus niveles, en la estructura económica urbana. En este sentido, se considera que el análisis del estado actual y el planteamiento de estrategias a futuro, requiere captar información cuantitativa del proceso de expansión generado, para entender al menos la dinámica urbana y tratar de ejercer un control sobre los ritmos y orientaciones de tal crecimiento. La propuesta planteada refiere a la formulación y sistematización de un registro de unidades propiciadas por expansión, a partir de hacer una lectura crítica reflexiva a la estadística demográfica oficial, cuyos intereses en los conteos de población -eficientes en sus fines- divergen del conocimiento fehaciente de las tendencias de expansión, al incrementar la población rural y desconocer el crecimiento urbano, mediante el conteo de unidades residenciales, ya sean fraccionamientos de interés social de alta densificación en proceso de ocupación o en otros casos, desarrollos inmobiliarios periurbanos habitados por  población urbana de altos ingresos y bajas densidades, registrando ambas realidades como localidades rurales. Criticism of the registration of new urban incorporationsUrban expansion, as one of the types of growth of the city, is analysed from the causes that deliver several possibilities of placement of the population, depending on its socio-economic level and preferences at choosing the place to live. In this way, urban space energizes its configuration by the constant creation of residential units that are added to the original city, occupied by populations of different social strata but with the common denominator of being immersed, at any of its levels, in the urban economic structure. In this sense, it is considered that the analysis of the current situation and the approach of future strategies, requires to capture quantitative information of the expansion process, in order to understand at least the urban dynamics and to try to exercise control over the rhythms and orientations of such growth. The proposal put forward concerns about the formulation and systematization of a register of units of expansion, from making a thoughtful critical reading to official demographic statistics, whose interests in population counts -altough efficient in their purposes- diverge from the reliable knowledge of the trends of expansion, by increasing the numbers of rural population and ignoring urban growth, by counting residential units, whether developments of social housing with high densification in the process of occupation or, in other cases, peri-urban real estate developments inhabited by urban population of high income and low densities, registering both realities as rural localities. Keywords: Urban expansion; demographic record; rural locations; fragmentation. 

scholarly journals Do plano à produção territorial da cidade: uma análise a partir da habitação em Palmas-TO

GeoTextos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Bessa ◽  
Andreia Cristina Guimarães Cantuaria Lucini ◽  
Janaína Augusta Neves Souza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

O presente artigo busca contribuir com o desvendamento dos processos de produção/reprodução do espaço urbano de Palmas, capital projetada do estado do Tocantins, sobretudo no que diz respeito à habitação. Tais processos perpassam pelo reconhecimento das práticas socioespaciais de um conjunto de agentes que, desde a implantação dessa capital em 1989, atuaram no sentido de garantir os processos de apropriação da terra, afiançando o seu papel na hegemonização do poder político e na realização da acumulação de capital. Essas práticas socioespaciais metamorfosearam o arranjo urbano projetado, conformando uma cidade espraiada, descontínua e fragmentada social e espacialmente. Abstract FROM THE PLAN OF THE CITY TERRITORIAL PRODUCTION: AN ANALYSIS OF HOUSING IN PALMAS, TOCANTINS STATE This article attempts to shed light on the processes of production/reproduction of urban space in Palmas, the designed capital of Tocantins state, Brazil, particularly with regards to housing. Such processes involve acknowledging social and spatial practices carried out by a group of agents who, since the city’s implementation in 1989, have acted to ensure land appropriation, hence underlining their role in hegemonizing political power and in bringing capital accumulation into effect. These social and spatial practices have transformed Palmas’ urban design, producing a city that is dispersed and discontinuous, as well as socially and spatially fragmented.

scholarly journals Cartografia Histórica da Cidade do Rio Grande/RS: Expansão Urbana entre 1737 e 2017.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1756
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Chaves Pires ◽  
Ítalo Seilhe Reis ◽  
Luiz Henrique Torres ◽  
Éder Maier
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Patos Lagoon ◽  
Port Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sprawling

Os mapas históricos preservam informações geográficas sobre a ocupação humana, a expansão urbana e as transformações ambientais ao longo da história. Nesta perspectiva, efetuamos a coleta, catalogação, descrição e interpretação de mapas do sítio urbano da cidade do Rio Grande, a fim de investigar a expansão urbana desde a fundação em 1737 até 2017. No presente estudo foram analisados oito produtos cartográficos representativos da expansão do núcleo central urbano da cidade do Rio Grande, foi utilizado desde documentos cartográficos históricos do século XVIII até as imagens de satélite da atualidade, buscando identificar a área urbana e suas transformações. As análises mostraram uma expansão urbana em função do crescimento demográfico propiciado pelas atividades militar, portuárias e industriais, que provocaram   profundas alterações na geomorfologia original do pontal. Adicionalmente, a condição fisiográfica é um dos maiores desafios para a expansão urbana do Rio Grande, novas porções de terrenos continuam sendo incorporados ao urbano através de aterros das áreas inundáveis por particulares, nas margens da Lagoa do Patos e Saco da Mangueira. E os projetos formalizados, oriundos do Poder Público, no passado promoveram as principais mudanças ambientais como, por exemplo, os aterros na área do porto, mas atualmente os projetos utilizam de áreas regularizadas. Favorecendo o adensamento urbano. A expansão urbana da cidade aconteceu em resposta à necessidade de desenvolvimento frente aos diversos ciclos econômicos de sua história, alterando a fisiografia do pontal arenoso para atender as demandas socioeconômicas de cada período.  Historical Cartography of the City of Rio Grande / RS: Urban Expansion between 1737 and 2017 A B S T R A C THistorical maps preserve geographic informations of human occupation, urban sprawling and environmental transformations throughout history. In view of this, was performed a map collection, cataloging, description and interpretation of the urban site of the city of Rio Grande, in order to investigate urban sprawling and environmental transformations since its foundation in 1737 to 2017. In this study, eight cartographic products were analyzed, representative of the Urban Core sprawl in Rio Grande, used from historical cartographic documents of the eighteenth century to the satellite images of today, attempt to identify the urban area and its transformations. The analyzes showed an urban expansion due to the demographic growth provided by military, port and industrial activities, which caused profound changes in the original geomorphology of the cape. In addition, the physiographic condition is one of the major challenges for the urban expansion of Rio Grande, new portions of land continue to be incorporated into the urban through landfills of flooded areas by individuals, on the shores of Patos Lagoon and Saco da Mangueira. In contrast formalized projects from the government have, in the past, promoted greatest environmental modifications, such as landfills in the Port area, but currently, the projects use regularized areas which supports urban densification. The urban sprawl of the city occurred in response to the need for development in the face of the many economic cycles of its history, changing the sandy ape physiography to better serve the socioeconomic demands of each period.Keywords: Map, Historical Record, Urban Sprawl.

A Malleable Cityscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Anish Vanaik
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

Chapter 2 presents the pattern of boom and bust in the property market and connects this to Delhi’s economy as a whole. With a depression of property construction in the 1920s and a boom in the mid-1930s, the Delhi property market was turbulent during this period. Carefully tracking the locations and timing of this pattern of rise and fall reveals the extent to which it was private property development rather than state-directed plans for urban expansion that generated Delhi’s cityscape. Over this period of bust and boom, however, the property market was constituted by new connections between industry, finance, and real estate. Using a database of permission to build created from the the Building Sub-Committee of the Delhi Municipal Committee, this chapter lays out a periodization of the property market. In turn, this had implications for urban space, from the individual house to the neighbourhood and indeed the city as a whole.

Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Zeynep Enlil ◽  
İclal Dinçer
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This chapter examines changing housing regimes in Istanbul. It analyses two forms of self-building that emerged as solutions improvised by people in response to the pressing housing need and became predominant modes of housing production since the 1950s, namely “gecekondu,” and “yap-sat” or “build-and-sell.” Although stimulated by governments for some decades, both of these self-regulated housing forms came to a point of expulsion under the new regime of capital accumulation based on aggressive real-estate development that has been adopted as part of neoliberal urban policies in Turkey since the 2000s. The frenzy for urban transformation accompanied by financialization of housing led to further commodification of housing and urban space, undermining the right to decent and affordable housing and quality urban space for every citizen, which gave rise to considerable dissent that culminated in the emergence of new urban movements in defence of housing rights and ‘right to the city.’

scholarly journals Seesaw of Spatial Metamorphosis in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (II) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Sadaf Mehmood
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
City Space ◽  
Spatial Consciousness ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Last Man ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Urban space is inherently uneven. Economic pursuits and commercial integrity translate urban space into categorization of haves and have-nots.Neo-Marxists theorize spatial disequilibrium through the dynamics of capital accumulation.Analysis of Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga helps to explorecity space as a commodified place that serves the interests of capital accumulation by converting it as a space of differences, struggles and negotiations. While examining spatial alienation, I probe the making of urban other who experiences, evictions, and displacements followed by the development projects of capital accumulation in the theoretical frame of David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession. The urban space expands and grows not for the urban other but for the elitist consumption. This directs the argument to inspect the creation of a critical spatial consciousness to assert the urban other’s right to the city. By retaliating to their evictions and dispossessions they devise strategies for remaking their space through their lived daily experiences. This has been supported by the theoretical lens of Henri Lefebvre’s “The right to the city”. The selected fiction defines uneven city space whereby the spatial metamorphosis dispossesses and displaces the urban other andraises critical spatial consciousness to obstruct subsequent displacements.

scholarly journals REPENSAR A CIDADE: INTERVENÇÃO EFÊMERA COMO INSTRUMENTO DE DISCUSSÃO DE ESPAÇOS RESIDUAIS NO CENTRO DA CIDADE DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE –SP

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Julia Salomão dos Santos Favareto ◽  
Fabricia Dias da Cunha de Moraes Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Site Survey ◽  
It Support ◽  
The City

The city of Presidente Prudente, a municipality that started with two areas developed from the Sorocabana Railway, underwent an accelerated urban expansion without planning, which later became an urban space in need of circulation and quality public spaces, resulting in the emergence of several residual spaces. Some examples of urban waste in the city, which have a strong local identity are the Viaduto Comendador Tannel Abbud and the railway line, inserted in its shallow. The Viaduct, after its construction (1970), in the central area ofthe city, caused the de-characterization of the surroundings where it was implanted and decreased the use of the site. The lower area of the viaduct, treated by academic literature as a residual space, is understood to be idle and devalued, with conflicts of use between informal commerce and homeless people. To this end, the objective of the dissertation is to investigate the history and dynamics of this space, bringing ephemeral intervention as an instrument to mitigate the problems of these areas, in order to generate urban kindness. In this way, making it support spaces for local manifestations by inserting and maintaining uses in its shallow, establishing a public space there. Therefore, the work uses the methodology based on bibliographic research and qualitative analysis, through bibliographic and documentary reviews, on-site survey and interpretation of such data. And finally, the development of intervention proposals with guidelines for the area under study

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