nÃo hà / O Brasil sediarà a Copa do Mundo de 2014 e Fortaleza foi eleita uma das cidadessede, e serà palco de vÃrias modificaÃÃes visando adequaÃÃes aos jogos. No Ãmbito da Mobilidade Urbana està sendo desenvolvido o Projeto VLT, que depois de concluÃdo, incidirà sobre vinte e dois bairros em treze quilÃmetros, totalizando intervenÃÃo sobre cerca de cinco mil casas. A forma como esse processo desenvolve-se à objeto deste estudo, tendo como objetivo geral avaliar o processo de implementaÃÃo do VeÃculo Leve sobre Trilhos (VLT) na percepÃÃo dos moradores de uma comunidade atingida pela remoÃÃo e as influÃncias para o espaÃo urbano de Fortaleza. A pesquisa foi pautada principalmente na aÃÃo incidida sobre atores sociais integrantes da comunidade afetada pelas obras, em seus aspectos fÃsicos, sociais e polÃticos. Buscou-se analisar como o Governo do Estado do Cearà conduziu o processo de implantaÃÃo do VLT no que tange Ãs comunidades existentes no traÃado das obras do projeto e como foi elaborado o processo de desocupaÃÃo/desapropriaÃÃo de tais Ãreas, bem como a identificaÃÃo das medidas adotadas, no contexto urbano da cidade, para aportar Ãs habitaÃÃes que serÃo extintas no processo de desapropriaÃÃo. / Brazil is going to host 2014 FIFA World Cup, and Fortaleza was selected as one of the host cities, which is going to go through several changes in order to be adapted for the event. In terms of Urban Mobility, it is being carried out a Light Rail Project which is going to cross 22 neighborhoods in 13 kilometers after its conclusion, impacting on about five thousand houses. The way this project is being carried out is the focus of this study, having as its general purpose to evaluate the process of the implementation of the Light Rail (LR) by the inhabitantsâ point of view from a community affected by the removal, and its influences on the urban space of Fortaleza. The research is based mainly on the action taken over social actors, members of the community affected by the Works, in relation to its physical, social and political aspects. There was an analisys carried out on how Cearà Government State led the process of LR implementation regarding to the existent communities along the way of the works of the project, the process of vacancy/expropriation of those areas, as well as the identification of the Governmentâs adopted measures, in the urban context of the city in order to get to the houses that are going to be demolished in the expropriation process.

Australia is a suburban nation. Today, with increasing concern regarding the sustainability of cities, an appreciation of the complexities of Australian suburbia is critical to the debate about urban futures. As a built environment and a cultural phenomenon, the Australian suburbs have inspired considerable scholarly literature. Yet to date, such scholarly work has largely overlooked the changing environmental values and visions of those shaping and residing within suburban landscapes, and the practices through which such values and visions are materialised in the processes of suburban development. Focusing on the post-war suburban landscapes of Canberra and Perth, this thesis centralises the environmental, political and economic forces that have shaped human action to construct suburban spaces, paying particular attention to the extent to which individual understandings and visions of 'environment' have determined the shape and nature of suburban development. Specifically, it examines how those operating within Australia’s suburbs, including planners, developers, builders, landscape designers and residents have imagined the 'environment', and how such imaginaries have shifted in response to varying spatial, temporal and ideological contexts. Tracing the shifting nature of environmental concern throughout the mid-to-late twentieth century, it argues that despite the somewhat unsustainable nature of Australia's suburban landscapes, the planning and development of such landscapes has long been influenced by and has responded to differing understandings of 'environment', which themselves are the product of changing social, political and economic concerns. In doing so, this thesis challenges a number of perceptions concerning Australian suburbs, environmental awareness and sustainability. In particular, it contests the assumption that environmental concern for Australia's suburban development emerged with the urban consolidation debates of the 1980s and 1990s, and analyses a range of environmental sensibilities not often acknowledged in current histories of Australian environmentalism. By examining, for example, how the deterministic and economic concerns of differing planning bodies, along with the aesthetic and ecological concerns of various planners, are intertwined with the housing and domestic lifestyle preferences of suburban homeowners, this history brings to the fore the often conflicting environmental ideas and practices that arise in the course of suburban development, and provides a more nuanced history of the diversity of environmental sensibilities. In sum, this thesis enhances our understandings of the changing nature of environmental concern and illuminates the complex, still largely misunderstood, environmental ideas and practices that arise in the processes of suburban development.