Marco da Légua: a topografia da (in)indiferença e as metamorfoses urbanísticas em um bairro interclassista em Belém

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marly Gonçalves da
• Orientador(a): Veras, Maura Pardini Bicudo
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Intervenções urbanísticas; Sociologia do urbanismo viário; Classes sociais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Urbanistic interventions; Street planning; Social classes
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18998

During the past fifty years the motor vehicle industry has been molding the internal structure of Brazilian cities, through a complex road web which encompasses quarters, streets and pavements, causing conflicts, violence and changes in the way of life of the residents of these micro and macro-territories. The State and corporate groups have taken advantage of the production and reproduction – real or symbolic – of the pathways which constitute this web, using different language strategies which sometimes conceal, sometimes reveal private interests, under the veil of universal benefits. This kind of arbitrary intervention concerning the streets and their places of neighbourliness and sociability, as well as the rejections it faces from the residents of Marco quarter, Belém, are analyzed here in three different moments: 1. the birth of modernizing town planning, at the turn of the 19th century, creates the street web on which are built distinctive speeches and actions that will show their different temporalities in the history of the quarter, and unveil contradictions in the course of its demographic occupation, outlining thus a topography of (in)difference. 2. public interventions on the street web which favor certain segments of society in prejudice of others, manifest themselves as urbanistic metamorphoses that intend to attract investments and increase an urban economy settled on trade and services and on the principles of competitive strategies of contemporary enterprising; they break out the valorization of immovable property in the street, which suffocates the traditional little enterprisers’ business. Ahead in this trend, the enterprising State, with its Monument-work. 3. The street as the scenary of fights for power and for symbolic power, showing the contradictions between the preservation discourse and the attack of reurbanization projects that threaten the gains preserved by the community of residents