Street Matters
A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil
Will be published approx. on 28. September 2022
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-8229-4713-4 (ISBN)
Description
Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequality. This inequality is physically manifested across Brazil, most visibly in its sprawling urban favelas. The authors propose an understanding of the social and spatial dynamics at play that is based on property, labor, and security. They stitch together the history of plans for urban space with the popular protests that Brazilians organized to fight for property and land. They embed the history of civil society within the history of urban planning and its institutionalization to show how urban and regional planning played a key role in the management of the social conflicts surrounding land ownership. If urban and regional planning at times benefited the expansion of civil rights, it also often worked on behalf of class exploitation, deepening spatial inequalities and conflicts embedded in different city spaces.
Reviews / Votes
A rich and detailed book which stitches together two scholarly literatures to better understand Brazilian inequality and transformations through the lens of street protests and urban policy. * Journal of Urban Affairs * This book does a superb job at explaining the main phases of the planning history, the connection between urban plans and public protest, and how and why street matters in Brazil. In the process, the political economy of planning, planning institutionalization, land ownership, property rights, labor, transportation, public safety, and housing get contextualized in novel ways. There is finally a fine book that connects them all. -- Clara E. Irazabal Zurita, University of Maryland Street Matters sheds welcome light on the intertwined relationships between urban inequality, popular protests, and public policy in the unique context of Brazil. Lara and Koury take us meticulously through the history of this urbanism, beginning with the issue of land in the fifteenth century to the massive street protests of 2013 and their aftermath. The book is an extremely valuable contribution toward a deeper understanding of urbanism in Brazil as well as a more general understanding of why urban inequalities continue to persist in many of our cities to this day. -- Aseem Inam, chair of urban design, Cardiff University, and director, TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation Street Matters provides a great critical outline of how policymakers and urban dwellers have responded, not always in accord, to a massive and sometimes violent urbanization process. In this sense, this book is not only interesting to urban and planning scholars but mainly to anyone interested in understanding Brazilian society and history through an urban lens. -- Joao Tonucci, Federal University of Minas GeraisMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-4713-4 (9780822947134)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Fernando Luiz Lara | Ana Paula Koury
Street Matters
A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil
E-Book
05/2022
Penguin Random House South Africa
€49.49
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Persons
Fernando Luiz Lara (Author)
Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.
Ana Paula Koury (Author)
Ana Paula Koury teaches at Universidade Sao Judas and Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo. She writes extensively about housing design and housing policy in Brazil.
Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.
Ana Paula Koury (Author)
Ana Paula Koury teaches at Universidade Sao Judas and Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo. She writes extensively about housing design and housing policy in Brazil.