Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Jorge Broide.pdf: 1228821 bytes, checksum: 2a3d9ff6f15165e9c833c806623253a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research deals with the violence that assails the youth in big city suburbs. The theoretical reference used is the work of Freud and the Argentinean School of Psychoanalysis, and in particular, Enrique Pichon Riviére. Eight sessions of a working group were carried out in an institution which works with the problem of violence and which has a program for the formation of youth leaders in the Southern Zone of the city of São Paulo. Two youths from this group committed homicide in a common fight, starting with a conflict between gangs at a Friday night party, a typical case in the run down suburbs. They were not arrested. The institution invited us to coordinate the group whose task would be to discover the reason why some youths kill and others do not. Not only did the two youths in question take part in the working group but also others (many of whom had survived massacres), besides some intellectuals, managers and directors of the institution, more or less twenty people altogether. The working group was used as a research instrument in the social field, seeking the deepest links and the implicit and unconscious reasons for the violence that effects a large part of our youth. We hope that the conclusions will also be useful in the vocational training of professionals who work directly in this field, formulating public policies and social programs. The categories elaborated from the clinical material were: the territory of the suburbs, which portrays the everyday violence; the word, which relates its presence or absence relating to the lead up to the act; the processes of identification, which bring up family dynamics; and the difference between social classes which discusses the class conflict and social relations experienced by the youths / Esta pesquisa trata da violência que abate a juventude das periferias das grandes cidades. O referencial teórico utilizado é a obra de Freud e da Escola Argentina de Psicanálise, em especial, Enrique Pichon Riviére. Foram realizadas oito sessões de grupo operativo em uma instituição que trabalha com a problemática da violência e que possuía um programa de formação de lideranças jovens na Zona Sul da cidade de São Paulo. Dois jovens desse grupo cometeram homicídio em uma briga banal, a partir de um conflito entre turmas numa festa de sexta-feira à noite, caso típico da periferia. Eles não foram presos. A instituição convidou-nos para coordenar o grupo que teria por tarefa descobrir a razão pela qual alguns jovens matam e outros não. Participaram do grupo operativo não só os dois jovens em questão, como outros (muitos deles sobreviventes de chacinas), além de alguns intelectuais, gerentes e diretores da instituição, mais ou menos vinte pessoas ao todo. O grupo operativo foi utilizado como instrumento de pesquisa do campo social, buscando os vínculos mais profundos e as razões implícitas e inconscientes da violência que afeta vasta parcela de nossa juventude. Esperamos que as conclusões sejam úteis também para a formação de profissionais que trabalham diretamente nesse campo, formulando as políticas públicas e os programas de atendimento. As categorias elaboradas a partir do material clínico foram: o território da periferia, que retrata o cotidiano da violência; a palavra, que relaciona sua presença ou sua ausência no que se refere às passagens ao ato; os processos de identificação, que trazem à tona a dinâmica familiar; e a diferença entre classes sociais que aborda o conflito de classes e relações sociais vividos pelos jovens

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Bin.pdf: 3978907 bytes, checksum: 6ae7e09414e294f1f1da0e94502ca669 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of the work is to examine the processes which take the resident population of the suburbs of São Paulo to participate in the evenings poetics, produce which marginal texts (lyrical and prosaic). And in that case, evoking it as well, in what as the poetic performance is established. It indeed amuses with the recitations. My object of study is two evenings poetic, situated in the sector of the Southwest of São Paulo: that of Cooperifa (Chácara Santana, district of M' Boi Mirim) and that of Binho (Campo Limpo, homonymous district). My theoretical references includes the literature which analyzes the concept of territory and the processes of social and space organization in the city of São Paulo of the circles of the century XX in our days, when I remove the aspects of the urban segregation. As examine the methodology, I try to analyze the territory of the city, the evolution of the reproduction of the space along time, for then to carry out an approach of the pedaço, the quebrada, the place where the writing eccentric is unfolded. I try then to discuss the forms of this act, its appeal to a peripheral identity, her poetic performance, finishing with their unfolding in deprived territories of the city, as cultural events for besides evenings / O objetivo deste trabalho é pesquisar os processos que levam a população residente das periferias de São Paulo a participar dos saraus poéticos, seja produzindo o que chamo de escritura marginal (poética ou em prosa) e nesse caso, também evocando-a, no que se constitui a performance poética seja entretendo-se com as declamações. Meu objeto de estudo são dois saraus poéticos, localizados na região sudoeste da cidade de São Paulo: o da Cooperifa (Chácara Santana, subprefeitura do M´Boi Mirim) e o do Binho (Campo Limpo, subprefeitura homônima). Utilizo como referenciais teóricos a literatura que analisa, do ponto de vista geográfico e sociológico, o conceito de território e os processos de organização socioespacial da cidade de São Paulo, desde meados do século XX até os nossos dias, quando destaco os aspectos da segregação urbana. Como metodologia de pesquisa, procuro discutir a formulação do território urbano, a evolução da reprodução do espaço ao longo do tempo, para então realizar uma aproximação do pedaço, da quebrada, a localidade onde se pratica a escritura marginal. Procuro então avaliar as formas e os conteúdos dessa escritura, seu apelo a uma identidade periférica, sua apresentação performática, concluindo com seus desdobramentos nos territórios da precariedade, como manifestações culturais para além dos saraus

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Bin.pdf: 3978907 bytes, checksum: 6ae7e09414e294f1f1da0e94502ca669 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of the work is to examine the processes which take the resident population of the suburbs of São Paulo to participate in the evenings poetics, produce which marginal texts (lyrical and prosaic). And in that case, evoking it as well, in what as the poetic performance is established. It indeed amuses with the recitations. My object of study is two evenings poetic, situated in the sector of the Southwest of São Paulo: that of Cooperifa (Chácara Santana, district of M' Boi Mirim) and that of Binho (Campo Limpo, homonymous district). My theoretical references includes the literature which analyzes the concept of territory and the processes of social and space organization in the city of São Paulo of the circles of the century XX in our days, when I remove the aspects of the urban segregation. As examine the methodology, I try to analyze the territory of the city, the evolution of the reproduction of the space along time, for then to carry out an approach of the pedaço, the quebrada, the place where the writing eccentric is unfolded. I try then to discuss the forms of this act, its appeal to a peripheral identity, her poetic performance, finishing with their unfolding in deprived territories of the city, as cultural events for besides evenings / O objetivo deste trabalho é pesquisar os processos que levam a população residente das periferias de São Paulo a participar dos saraus poéticos, seja produzindo o que chamo de escritura marginal (poética ou em prosa) e nesse caso, também evocando-a, no que se constitui a performance poética seja entretendo-se com as declamações. Meu objeto de estudo são dois saraus poéticos, localizados na região sudoeste da cidade de São Paulo: o da Cooperifa (Chácara Santana, subprefeitura do M´Boi Mirim) e o do Binho (Campo Limpo, subprefeitura homônima). Utilizo como referenciais teóricos a literatura que analisa, do ponto de vista geográfico e sociológico, o conceito de território e os processos de organização socioespacial da cidade de São Paulo, desde meados do século XX até os nossos dias, quando destaco os aspectos da segregação urbana. Como metodologia de pesquisa, procuro discutir a formulação do território urbano, a evolução da reprodução do espaço ao longo do tempo, para então realizar uma aproximação do pedaço, da quebrada, a localidade onde se pratica a escritura marginal. Procuro então avaliar as formas e os conteúdos dessa escritura, seu apelo a uma identidade periférica, sua apresentação performática, concluindo com seus desdobramentos nos territórios da precariedade, como manifestações culturais para além dos saraus

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the project Knitting House using art and architectural theories to question the forms of the project as well as the town planning in the area of Husby, a suburb to Stockholm. In order to stress the architectural issues in the area of Husby, the thesis examines the aim and intention of the project Knitting House. The project explores the standardized architectural form that was used and built under the Miljonprogrammet, through the years of 1960-1970 in the neighborhoods of Järvafältet. The thesis will also investigate some of the problems that arise when attempting to discuss knitting as a method used to perform Knitting House.  This paper explores the relationships between public and private spaces, the areas in between them and how they interact. The claim made throughout the thesis is that Knitting House can function as a political catalyst by presenting a combined perspective of art, architecture and politics to address the social and ethnic segregation in suburbs like Husby.

The Progressive Era affected the South in different ways from other regions of the United States. Because Southern society was more entrenched in patriarchy and traditional social strictures, Nashville provides an excellent lens in which to assess the vision of a New South city. Known as “Athens of the South,” Nashville legitimized this title with the emergence of several colleges and universities of regional and national prominence in the 1880s and 1890s. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Nashville’s universities solidified their status as reputable institutions, with Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities garnering national prominence. Within Nashville, local colleges, including Ward Belmont College, David Lipscomb University, Peabody College, Roger Williams University, and Meharry Medical College shaped and were shaped by the growing city. Higher education and urbanization created a dialectic that produced a new generation and a new monied class of young adults who thought and acted differently from their parents. Moreover, women became more active participants in public spheres because of opportunities provided by higher education. In most cases, Nashville’s women continued to use their husband’s prominence to earn greater success. In regard to race, the city’s African American colleges helped to produce men and women who formed the backbone of the rising black middle class and elite in the South. Nashville endured great change, formally beginning with the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, whereby the city’s trajectory followed a more modern approach, albeit southern style. Higher education played a large role in the direction of the city, both literally and figuratively. Shifts in attitude toward race, gender, and leisure combined to create a new youth culture. Young women and men socialized on and off campus through a variety of new forms of recreation. The experience of “college life” was more than attending classes but rather a fluid phase beginning with youthfulness and ending with adulthood. Social interaction increasingly became a major component of college life; the city of Nashville simply provided the stage. By U.S. entrance into World War I, Nashville had legitimized its position as a Southern urban center of entertainment and higher education.

Le commerce a connu à travers le temps de nombreuses évolutions, tant dans sa forme que dans son implantation, passant de grands magasins prestigieux dans le cœur des villes au début du XXe siècle à de grands centres commerciaux à la jonction d’autoroute dans les années 2000. Le lifestyle center est la forme commerciale la plus aboutie, concept américain existant depuis les années 80, il est apparu pour la première fois au Québec en 2006 à Brossard sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal. Ses caractéristiques hors du commun ; une surface de vente de près de 2 000 000 pi² faisant de lui un centre d’envergure supra régional, son agencement de boutiques en plein air regroupé autour d’une rue piétonne ainsi qu’un mix commercial extrêmement varié rompt avec les traditionnels centres commerciaux existants. Ainsi en s’implantant à Brossard le Quartier DIX30 est venu modifier profondément la structure commerciale de la Rive-Sud en s’imposant comme un contre poids de taille par rapport à la domination du pôle des Promenades Saint-Bruno. Cependant, le Quartier DIX30 ne va pas seulement modifier cette structure commerciale, mais plus globalement la centralité urbaine de la Rive-Sud en s’imposant comme un pôle central majeur. Le Quartier DIX30 grâce à sa mixité d’activité et son concept favorisant les interactions sociales est en train d’insuffler un mouvement de concentration d’activité commerciale et tertiaire. Ainsi aujourd’hui se développe au pourtour du Quartier DIX30 de nombreux locaux à bureaux. Cependant, cette nouvelle centralité créée par le Quartier DIX30 soulève des interrogations notamment vis-à-vis de la privatisation d’un espace s’imposant de plus en plus comme un des pôles principaux de croissance de la Rive-Sud. Ainsi, une question légitime se pose, ne sommes-nous pas en train d’assister à une privatisation d’un centre-ville en devenir ? / Over the time, trade has knew numerous changes in term of location and form, passing from prestigious department stores in the heart of cities in the early twentieth century to large shopping centers at the junction of highways in the years 2000. The lifestyle center is the most accomplished commercial form, the American concept exists since the years 1980 and it appeared for the first time in Quebec in 2006 in Brossard on the South Shore of Montreal. Its unusual features: a sales area of almost 2 000 000 square feet (making it a center of supra-regional scale), a mix of shops clustered around a pedestrian street and numerous other activities, breaks with the traditional agencement of the existing shopping malls. Thus, by becoming established in Brossard, the Quartier DIX30 modifies profoundly the commercial structure of the South Shore of Montréal. The Quartier DIX30 imposes itself as a major commercial pole against the domination of the Promenades Saint Bruno. The Quartier DIX30 will not only change the commercial structure of the South Shore, but more generally the urban centrality of the South Shore established itself as a major center pole. Due to the variety of activities and its concept of mix of shops clustered around a pedestrian street permitting social interaction, the Quartier DIX30 creates a commercial and office concentration. Thus, today develops around the Quartier DIX30 many building with offices. However, this new centrality created by the Quartier DIX30 raises interrogations in particular with respect to the privatization of a space imposing itself more and more like one of the principal poles of growth of the South Shore. Thus, a question legitimate is posed, does we aren't attending a privatization of a downtown area in becoming?

Au moment où les territoires périurbains se transforment rapidement sous l’impulsion des stratégies de développement de l’industrie immobilière, les préoccupations sociales en matière de qualité des paysages et des cadres de vie se font de plus en plus grandes. Devant ces enjeux, les actions aménagistes privilégient le plus souvent des solutions à partir d’un regard « expert » généralement étranger aux demandes sociales en présence. Devant l’insuffisance des connaissances des regards citoyens, il y a une urgence à développer des méthodes originales aptes à révéler ce savoir local. Une enquête menée à l’automne 2009 à Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal, révèle la pertinence d’une approche anthropologique sous-utilisée et novatrice en particulier pour les recherches en aménagement : celle du « récit-parcours ». Permettant un accès privilégié aux récits ancrés aux lieux de vies, cette méthode a permis de susciter des discours singuliers et collectifs sur le territoire, de révéler des propos sur les imaginaires portés sur la ville et d’offrir un espace d’expression des préoccupations, des valorisations et des aspirations des résidants. Les résultats de l’enquête à cet effet sont concluants : ce que nous révèlent les résidants de par leurs expériences vécues des lieux et leurs cheminements spatiaux est incontestablement riche et pertinent pour la compréhension des enjeux collectifs d’un milieu. Les logiques existantes derrière les transformations de ces territoires bénéficieraient grandement de ce savoir localisé, complexe et ingénieux dont dispose les résidants de la géographie, de l’environnement, de l’urbanisation et des caractéristiques sociales de leur ville. Ce faisant, le territoire change alors de statut : d’un objet d’évaluation experte, il devient une mise en scène dynamique où s’inscrivent des fragments significatifs d’histoires faisant référence à l’expérience du vécu quotidien, mais aussi, à la potentialité des lieux. Par le biais d’une telle démarche et en conjonction avec des méthodes participatives, il devient possible d’engager une véritable réflexion plurielle envers l’avenir des territoires périurbains, en résonance avec les aspirations locales. / While suburbs are being transformed at an alarming rate, under the pressures of the Real estate industry’s development strategies, social concerns regarding the quality of life and the resulting landscapes are currently on the rise. With these challenges to bear, stakeholders usually employ solutions from an "expert" perspective that remain impervious to existing social conditions and demands. Given the lack of knowledge from the citizens’ perspectives, there is an urgent need for developing novel methods that are capable of bringing forth this local knowledge. A survey conducted in fall 2009 with residents of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on the south shore of Montreal, revealed the strength of an under-used and innovative method: the go-along. This method has demonstrated a particularly interesting technique to grasp the way dwellers qualify, imagine, value and move through their locality. Allowing privileged access to biographies and giving rise to improvised paths, the method has enabled placed-based narratives and has lead to an opening for expressing concerns, valuations and aspirations of citizens towards their community. In doing so, landscapes shift from expert evaluation to a dynamic scene where significant fragments of individual stories are told in relation to the experience of places in the everyday life. The study results conclude that the residents’ narratives and knowledge are undeniably rich and relevant to comprehending collective landscape issues and values. The existing logics and processes behind suburban landscape transformations would highly benefit from the collective wealth of dwellers’ extensive, situated and complex knowledge of the city’s geography, politics, economy and sociology. Furthermore, it can lead way to community participatory projects engaging multiple actors within a collective multifaceted reflection on the future of suburbs and the actions that should be taken towards a better future.

David Rusk claims in Cities Without Suburbs that elastic American cities are less segregated than other American cities. I demonstrate through statistical analyses that there is a strong correlation between Rusk's elasticity (an index comprised of a central city's annexation history since 1950 and its population density) and his income segregation index. The statistical correlation between these two variables is stronger than between Rusk's segregation index and any other variable I test, including city age, size, regional location, and black population percentage. I then consider several hypotheses that may explain these correlations and propose that the continuous annexation of peripheral, developing land by a central city prevents the incorporation of affluent suburbs. Suburban boundaries, especially those of affluent suburbs, function as population sorting mechanisms, which segregate migrant households by socioeconomic status and life-style. I ascertain that only rapidly growing, unbounded central cities prevent or ameliorate segregation by being elastic. / Department of Urban Planning

This study examines the meaning of home for 19 Hindu Gujarati immigrant women living in the Montreal suburban municipality of Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Adopting a qualitative approach, this study redefines home as a multiple and dynamic concept, referring not only to the house but also the homeland, neighbourhood, cultural community and even the abstract feeling of belonging or being 'at home.' While this study concentrates on the women's present homes and neighbourhoods, the idea of the home as being reinvented across a variety of spaces and social relationships is a central theme. Home-making is argued to be an evolving social process that begins in the childhood and marital homes in India and continues with the transition into new homes in Montreal. The house and home spaces (the neighbourhood and cultural community) are sites where multiple dimensions of the women's identities are given a voice and reinvented. The women define the character of the home spaces, and also negotiate culture, ethnicity and identity within them. Through the construction of hybrid cultural identities, the women are able to make themselves and their families 'at home' between cultures. This study points to complex and sometimes paradoxical meanings of home, and emphasizes the significance of the suburban, rather than inner city, quality of home-making and adaptation processes among immigrant women in Montreal.

Older Australians walk for many reasons: health, recreation and transport. However, road safety statistics show that pedestrians over 65 represent one-third of Australia's pedestrian deaths. As Australia's population ages in place and older people take up a walking regime for health and transportation reasons, they need a supportive suburban setting. Urban design theories discuss such "pedestrian-friendly" concepts as sense of place, sense of community, responsive environments, traditional neighbourhood design, transit-oriented development, and crime prevention through environmental design. To investigate these concepts in relation to older pedestrians, this study brings together two areas of literature - research into older pedestrians in relation to urban design theories. Qualitative research methods were used in two case studies, to reveal how older people's interpretation of their local walking environment relates to urban design theories concerning walkable suburbs. The two Brisbane suburbs of Bulimba and Forest Lake were chosen for study, as they have different histories, topographies, street patterns, and other variations. Analysis of key themes gathered from two focus group discussions, one from each suburb, revealed the significance for participants of social interaction when walking for health. A photographic exercise performed by the Forest Lake focus group provided pictorial information for analysis, and revealed participants' interest in the lake's fauna and flora, and in its ongoing maintenance. The study was limited by an unforeseen failure to obtain the cooperation of the Bulimba group in the photographic exercise. In support of the claims made in the literature review, it seems that when older pedestrians walk through suburban streets, they avoid steep hills, busy roads, and intersections where possible, and require footpaths with even surfaces and shelters. When walking for health reasons, participants in this study did not favour local streets, but preferred "natural" places designed exclusively for walkers. Forest Lake participants stated a preference for driving to places they deemed suitable for walking, which suggests a need for more detailed design attention to the urban design qualities of local streets, so that those older people without cars are not disadvantaged.