Brazil : restructuring the urban / guest-edited by Hattie Hartman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Hattie, editor.

Series:

Architectural Design ; Profile Number 241

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Brazil.

City planning.

Urban renewal--Brazil.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Summary:

Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country's citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent of the population live in metropolises of more than a million people. Whereas previously urban growth had been ad hoc, preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 12 cities across the country in 2014, and for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, changed all that. Several Brazilian cities have proactively invested in infrastructure and the public realm. And a number of projects by international 'starchitects' have heightened interest in Brazil from architects and urban practitioners abroad. The failure of public authorities to meet their ambitious aspirations for the sporting mega-events sparked a series of street protests across the country under the banner of 'the right to the city', beginning in 2013. For Brazil, this was an entirely new phenomenon, one which has unveiled the potential for bottom-up influences to effect urban change. The focus of this issue, though, is on design projects that contribute a strong sense of place to their respective cities, highlighting also the integration of landscape design in urban planning and community interventions that seek to address the enormous disparity between the lives of the country's rich and poor. Contributors: Ricky Burdett, Thomas Deckker, Gabriel Duarte, Sergio Ekerman, Nanda Eskes and André Vieira, Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo, Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho, Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves, Jaime Lerner, Ana Luiza Nobre, Justin McGuirk, Francesco Perrotta-Bosch, Maria do Rocio Rosário, Fernando Serapião, Guilherme Wisnik Featured architects: AECOM, Biselli Katchborian, Brasil Arquitetura, Santiago Calatrava, Studio Arthur Casas, Diller Scofdio + Renfro, Herzog & de Meuron, Vigliecca & Associados

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Copyright Page

Editorial

About the Guest-Editor

Fore-thoughts: Learning from Lerner

Introduction Seeds of Change: Urban Transformation in Brazil

Why Brazilian Urbanism Now?

A Country of City Dwellers

Economic Vicissitudes

Right to the City

Key Themes

Notes

Where to for Brazil's Cities?: Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing?

A Poetic Reduction of Nature

Brasilia: Apogee and Crisis in Urban Modernisation

Neglected Cities

Explosive Urban Growth

Between Media Spectacle and Citizen Activism

A City at Play: Rio de Janeiro on the Eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Calendar of Mega-Events

Change of Scenario

'Sanitation Yes, Cable Cars No!'

Mobility and Displacement

Port Area Regeneration

New Museums

Olympic Park

Athletes Village: Ilha Pura (Pure Island)

Failing the Informal City: How Rio de Janeiro's Mega Sporting Events Derailed the Legacy of Favela-Bairro

Favela-Bairro: Integrating the Favela

The Legacy of Favela-Bairro

Morar Carioca: High Hopes for an Olympic Legacy

Minha Casa Minha Vida: Non-urbanism

Maps to Hack, Synchronise and Decipher: Unseen Cartographies of Rio

A Deficiency in Rio's Mapping

Maps as Political (or Socio-Cultural?) Constructs

Collaborative Digital Mapping

Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida: The Resurgence of Public Space

A Neoliberal Approach to Housing Delivery

An Urban Quality Label for Minha Casa Minha Vida

Parauapebas: An Urban Quality Label Prototype

The Future of MCMV

Dissatisfied São Paulo

COME TO THE STREET

Top-Down and Bottom-Up

Dry Metropolis

Linking the Formal and Informal: Favela Urbanisation and Social Housing in São Paulo

São Paulo - a Disenfranchised Urban Periphery.

A Multi-Pronged Approach in São Paulo

Bete's Management Style

More than Housing

Green Infrastructure

The Market Prevails

Alternative Visions of the Brazilian City: In conversation with Herzog &amp

de Meuron Senior Partner Ascan Mergenthaler

The Essence of Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompeia in Cracolândia

Urban Acupuncture in Mãe Luíza

Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia

The Founding of Brasília: the Kubitschek Years

Brasília After Kubitschek: The Ditadura and Abertura

Brasília Today

Life Beyond Utopia

Recife: The Popular Struggle for a Better City

CITY VERSUS NATURE

HISTORICAL VERSUS MODERN

THE STRUGGLE OF THE CITY, FOR THE CITY, BY THE CITY

CAPIBARIBE PARK AND THE REINVENTION OF RECIFE

Salvador: The Struggle for Dialogue Within a Heritage City

Lelé and Lina

Pelourinho: An Empty Tourist Neighbourhood

Mobility

Favela Upgrade

Regaining the Waterfront

Consensus and Political Will

Curitiba Revisited: Five Decades of Transformation

A Thriving City Centre: 'A Setting for Encounters'

Integrated Transport as a Cornerstone

The Challenge of Metropolitan Integration

The Critical Role of Stable Municipal Governance

The Verdict: Has Curitiba Delivered on its Ideals?

Landscaping Brazil: The Legacy of Roberto Burle Marx

The Modern Movement: Roberto Burle Marx

The Military Years: São Paulo's Praça da Sé

Resurgence of Civic Landscape: Rosa Kliass

Ecological Landscapes

Private Spaces for the Public Good

Public Greening: From State Wetlands to Municipal Parks

São Paulo: Rediscovery of the Public Realm

Sustainability: A Clarion Call for a New Approach

The Dominance of Green Certification

A Lost Legacy of Bioclimatic Modernism

Looking to the Future: a National Energy Plan.

The Minhocão: Reinvention of an Existing Asset

A New Approach to Sustainable Urbanism

Counterpoint Designing Inequality?

Porto Maravilha: An Exemplary Redevelopment?

Balancing the Imbalance

Towards Porous Urbanism

Contributors

What is Architectural Design?

Forthcoming Titles

Back Cover

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2017).

OCLC:

950035649