Occupation & city: the proto-urbanism of urban movements in central São Paulo.

• Autor(a) principal: Stevens, Jeroen
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25887
• topic: urbanismo; centro de São Paulo (Brasil); movimentos sociais urbanos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO::PROJETO DE ARQUITETUTA E URBANISMO

Occupation & City: The Proto-Urbanism of Urban Movements in Central São Paulo This doctoral research investigates the interaction between occupations and the city in central São Paulo. It explores whether and how urban movements perform a particular proto-urbanism, prefiguring and setting out to piece together alternative urban worlds in the vacancy of the old one. Its main concerns revolve around vacancy and occupations, movements and mutirão. How are occupations and city mutually transformative? Focus cuts across spatial and temporal scales, studying occupations by interrogating the city, and inquiring the city by inspecting particular occupied sites. Its extended case study of central São Paulo involves empirical studies of the urban conurbation, specific urban components constituted by the neighbourhood of Bixiga and the building block of Teatro Oficina, and the constellations of temporary occupations of vacant buildings enacted by social and artistic movements. It seeks to document and expose a latent form of urbanism in-the-making in the occupations of downtown São Paulo, and probe their interaction with the city and broader discourses and practices of urbanism. It is on the outlook for more sustainable and socially just models of urban development, and its premise holds that urban movements are unwittingly ushering towards that by unleashing the spatial and social resourcefulness of downtown vacancy through collaborative, mutual-aid based practices. The research project that underpins this thesis draws on multiple methods of urbanism, mainly combining urban analysis and participant-observation. It stems from a close collaboration with multiple social and artistic movements, cultural collectives, human rights associations and governmental and academic institutions in São Paulo.