Pegadas de classe na paisagem

• Autor(a) principal: Holanda, Frederico de
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: P@ranoá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/paranoa/article/view/issn.1679-0944.n1.2003.12272

This paper reports on results of a comparative study among very diverse societies, from pre-state cases to a contemporary formation, concerning the relationships between class structure and settlement spatial patterns. It is obvious that there are many social traits that cannot be retrieved purely from the built landscape. It is less obvious, though, to what extent it is actually possible to retrieve structurai characteristics of social formations, which recurrently imprint themselves on the ground along history. Architectural literature often stresses the "arbitrariness" of settlement forms, which would supposedly "mean" different things, in different circumstances. It will not be denied that there exist architectural "conventions", or that there is a "semantics" which qualifies each and every place societies build. Nevertheless the actual possibilities of movement of people along barriers and permeabilities on the ground impose strong limitations on such conventions. Different ways of using and assessing the city by different social classes in a contemporary setting (Brasilia), offer interesting clues concerning this. By means of Space Syntax analytic categories, it will be shown not only that ''classness" equals physical discontinuities, blind spaces and hierarchies on the ground, but that these are precisely the spatial attributes which are mostly praised by the dominant social layers.