A pesquisa discute o fenômeno da segregação socioespacial na Macrozona Urbana de Santo André, SP, no período de 2000 e 2010, a partir da mensuração do Índice de Qualidade de Vida Urbana (IQVU), composto por índices vinculados às dimensões saneamento ambiental, educação e nível socioeconômico. Os dados consultados integram os Censos do IBGE (Resultados do Universo por setor censitário) e foram sistematizados e analisados por meio da estatística descritiva e o mapeamento temático e sintético. Como resultado central, os mapas de qualidade de vida definem uma classificação espacial e temporal dos setores censitários amostrais. De forma geral, registrou-se o aumento do IQVU na área de estudo entre 2000 e 2010, refletindo a melhoria na conjuntura econômica do país e no âmbito regional. Com relação ao espaço intraurbano, os setores com IQVU mais alto concentraram-se na região central da cidade, ao contrário das áreas periféricas da cidade. Essa situação reflete-se na manutenção dos processos de segregação socioespacial no município, ou mesmo na intensificação em alguns setores. Neste contexto, o método aplicado na pesquisa traz subsídios às políticas públicas de planejamento territorial urbano no município que busquem minimizar os processos estruturadores da desigualdade e da segregação socioespacial, especialmente nas áreas mais críticas. / This work discusses the socio-spatial segregation in the urban macrozone of Santo André, SP, Brazil, between 2000 and 2010, by measuring the Urban Life Quality Index (ULQI), which is composed of the indexes of environmental sanitation, education, and socio-economic condition. The data used for consultation are part of the Census of the IBGE (The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), and were systematically analyzed by using descriptive statistics, as well as thematic mapping and synthetic mapping. As a central result, quality of life maps define a spatial and temporal classification of sample census tracts. In general, an increase in the ULQI was observed for the study area between 2000 and 2010, reflecting a regional improvement and an improvement in the countrys economic condition. In relation to the intra-urban space, the tracts with the highest ULQIs are concentrated in the downtown area, unlike the peripheral areas of the city. This situation is reflected in the maintenance of socio-spatial segregation processes in the city, or even in their aggravation in certain tracts. In this context, the research method provides subsidies to public policies of urban land planning in the city, so as to minimize the structuring processes of inequality and segregation, especially in the most critical areas.

The topic of the diploma’s thesis is a proposal of revitalization of the former industrial area in Prague, Vysočany. The neighborhood that was in the past in the suburbs of Prague near the railway is now barely used or not used for the benefit of the city district and its users. The proposal is based on creating an active environment that would correspond to the modern running of the city and serve the needs of its inhabitants. The urban-architectural study respects the current trends of the locality and ongoing development projects, which will significantly influence the appearance and functioning of Vysočany district. In particular, the given locality is characterized by the lack of urban life, as it is mainly the industrial district, as well as the center itself, which would correspond to a major urban district. An important part of the whole concept was the intervention of the area with the new city boulevard Kolbenova. The aim of the thesis is a proposal that would be based on the needs of Prague as a metropolitan city, therefore the proposal respects the currently discussed Metropolitan Plan, which allows high-rise development in the given locality. The study seeks to create sufficient housing capacity and opportunities that represent the potential for the entire city district and can respond to the demand of the population for quality living in the city according to current standards relating to the capital city of Prague.

The proposal follows up on the undergraduate semester work which dealt with a topic of data centers - a lifestyle based on data circulation. Growing needs of city dwellers, coupled with the demand of constant connectivity, are reflected in the transformation of the landscape which is being occupied by gigantic data centers. Those data centres in the loopback reconfigure the environment of cities that use their instant and "unlimited" computing power. The landscape is becoming the engine room of digital urban life. The thesis develops social and environmental issues of "continuity between a city and a country” and outlines a problem of self-sufficiency and awareness of the energy intensity of current urban lifestyle. In my work I focus on one of the by-products of data centers. That is waste heat, which has a negative effect on the quality and lifespan of electronic components - it is undesirable. Data center entrepreneurs have found a way to divert unfavourable attention from the debate about the energy demand of big data. They transform waste into a desired commodity by replacing conventional forms of heating with a system newly based on the supply of waste heat. Therefore, they are becoming significant suppliers of thermal energy. The phenomenon of heat recycling neutralizes external criticism of big data by making urban life literally dependent on it. The sustainable future of data center operations takes place largely without critical debate. On the contrary, it confirms data production as a process that literally drives everyday life. This new wave of green techno-optimism and related implementations is shrouded in a discourse of innovation, environmental friendliness and smart data processing. The diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon of commodification of waste heat of a specific data center, and its potential for symbolic and material transformation of the urban environment. The critical dimension of this transformation allows visitors to literally experience first-hand the manipulation of the climate of a specific location - the new city market in Brno. Other issues arise in connection with the recycling of waste heat. What will happen when big data streams become a raw material to replace older forms of energy supply in an urbanized world? What will be the impact on the city´s heating, the economic and symbolic importance of data center entrepreneurs?

How can light positively influence and encourage pedestrians’ engagement and interaction with the urban environments at night? In this Master Thesis, I questioned how to develop nighttime urban planning from a socially-oriented approach. In order to answer this question, I studied different evidence such as two publications, three lighting designers’ and a lighting studio’ approach; three case studies analyses, two of them located in Colombia (Cartagena and Medellín) and one in Sweden (Stockholm);and my own qualitative observation and quantitative measurements studied between April and May at Norrmalmstorg and Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm, Sweden. From that review, I propose a Guideline consisted of three sections: (1) Main dimensions, (2) lighting attributes, and (3) lighting systems in urban planning. In general, this guideline is a framework to develop the analytical tools for various design stages in nighttime urban planning.

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The negative effects of external trade on urban life have long been a subject of discussion, especially regarding its impact on central urban environments. Studies indicate that urban life decreases when retail moves out of city centers, leading to less activity and fewer spontaneous encounters in the city center. At the same time, sustainability issues and the creation of vibrant urban environments are highly prioritized by municipalities. The purpose of this thesis is to identify factors that can improve urban life in Borlänge city center and propose concrete improvements. Through a combination of site analysis, visual analysis, and literature review, a comprehensive urban analysis has been conducted. The work includes various field studies to understand both the strengths and weaknesses that characterize Borlänge city center. The results of the analysis have formed the basis for recommendations aimed at increasing the attractiveness and functionality of the city center. Suggestions include strengthening routes with high potential for urban life, overcoming physical and social barriers, reducing the dominance of car traffic, and integrating more green areas and meeting places. Through these measures, we strive to create a more inviting and sustainable urban environment that promotes social interaction and activity in Borlänge city center. This work demonstrates how the physical environment can be transformed to revive urban life and enhance the attractiveness of the city center, with the goal of creating a sustainable and lively city where people enjoy spending time. / Externhandelns negativa effekter på stadslivet har länge varit ett ämne för diskussion, särskilt med avseende på hur den påverkar centrala stadsmiljöer. Studier visar att stadslivet minskar när detaljhandeln flyttar ut från stadskärnorna, vilket leder till mindre aktivitet och färre spontana möten i stadens centrum. Samtidigt är hållbarhetsfrågor och skapandet av levande stadsmiljöer högt prioriterade av kommunerna. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att identifiera faktorer som kan förbättra stadslivet i Borlänge centrum och föreslå konkreta förbättringar. Genom en kombination av platsanalyser, visuella analyser och litteraturstudier har en omfattande stadsanalys genomförts. Arbetet inkluderar olika fältstudier för att förstå både de styrkor och svagheter som karaktäriserar Borlänge centrum. Resultaten av analysen har legat till grund för rekommendationer som syftar till att öka attraktiviteten och funktionaliteten i stadskärnan. Förslagen inkluderar att stärka stråk med hög potential för stadslivet, övervinna fysiska och sociala barriärer, minska biltrafikens dominans, och integrera fler grönområden och mötesplatser. Genom dessa åtgärder strävar vi efter att skapa en mer inbjudande och hållbar stadsmiljö som främjar social interaktion och aktivitet i Borlänge centrum. Detta arbete visar hur den fysiska miljön kan omformas för att återuppliva stadslivet och stärka stadskärnans attraktivitet, med målet att skapa en hållbar och livfull stad där människor trivs och gärna vistas.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sergio.pdf: 1420878 bytes, checksum: c6d863c01acd82f0d76b183f449d43af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study follows transformations in the living at Uberlândia, between 1980 and 2004. These changes had occurred in reason of some conjunctures that had evidenced the fight for the right for city and the debates on the hunger as a new historical phenomena, making the poverty and the poor persons be under focus in the politician, social city horizon. At this aspect, the local newspaper Correio had functioned as intersection point and it had worked as ideas spreading and explanations for the existence, permanence and visibility reached by the poverty in the urban life. Among the possible explanations, it had surfaced notions as ignorance , disdain for the cultural goods and values, propensity to the high natality and predisposition to the alcohol and drugs. The analyses of these notions had been seen as class fight expression inside on a cultural dynamics that determined a place at the social one to the poor persons. In this direction, the research consider ways by which the public power had intervined in the unpolitization and disarrangement of the fights implemented for the poor persons in the city, concretized in implementation and regulation of financial support distribution politics. Thus, this study aims to understand memories and histories produced in this transformation process, attempting for ways by wich the public politics had contributed to the ordinance and poverty senses construction during those years. By means of the verbal narratives, we aims to understand how the beneficiaries had lived, experienced and elaborated consciences on the tensions and relations firmed with religious, givers and public service agents, tensions and relations that had been translated to behavior ways and expectations on the future / Este estudo acompanha transformações no viver em Uberlândia, entre 1980 e 2004. Essas mudanças ocorreram em função de várias conjunturas que evidenciaram a luta pelo direito à cidade e as discussões sobre a fome como um novo fenômeno histórico, fazendo com que a pobreza e os pobres se destacassem no horizonte político e social da cidade. Nesse aspecto, o jornal local Correio funcionou como ponto de intersecção, de divulgação de idéias e explicações para a existência, permanência e visibilidade alcançada pela pobreza na vida urbana. Entre as explicações possíveis, sobressaíram-se noções de ignorância , de desprezo pelos bens e valores culturais, de propensão à alta natalidade, de predisposição ao álcool e às drogas. As análises dessas noções foram vistas como expressão das lutas de classe no interior de uma dinâmica cultural que determinava um lugar no social aos pobres. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa dimensiona modos pelos quais o poder público interveio na despolitização e no desarranjo das lutas implementadas pelos pobres na cidade, consubstanciados na implementação e regulamentação de políticas de distribuição de apoio financeiro. O trabalho busca, então, compreender memórias e histórias produzidas nesse processo de transformação, atentando para os modos como as políticas públicas contribuíram na ordenação e na construção de sentidos de pobreza implementadas durante aqueles anos. Por meio das narrativas orais, busca-se compreender como os beneficiários viveram, experimentaram e elaboraram consciências sobre as tensões e relações firmadas com religiosos, doadores e agentes do serviço público, tensões e relações que foram traduzidas em modos de comportamento e em expectativas sobre o futuro

Modernitet och intermedialitet is the first major study of the Swedish modernist writer Erik Asklund (1908-1980) and his works. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three close readings of Asklund’s early novels Kvinnan är stor (The Woman is Great, 1931), Lilla land (A Small Country, 1933), and Fanfar med fem trumpeter (A Fanfare with Five Trumpets, 1934). In these novels, Asklund depicts modernity in Sweden in the 1930’s. Exploring the modernity of the 1930’s in Asklund’s novels, especially the contemporary media situation turns out to be one of the most important aspects. Asklund wrote stories about film, music and various forms of visual culture, (photography, for instance). These different forms of art and media play an important role for Asklund’s writings, not only thematically, but also narationally. In my analyses, I put forward different theoretical aspects of intermediality. In this context, the ideas of Werner Wolf have been especially useful to my examinations of the intermedial aspects in Asklund’s works. In the novel Kvinnan är stor, Asklund tells the story about the young woman Lydia, who moves from the countryside to the big city of Stockholm. She then learns to decode the modern urban society, and becomes a modern woman. In Kvinnan är stor, intermediality is expressed mainly through various connections to film and photography. The modernization of Sweden in the early 20th century was much a question of the countryside becoming modern. In Lilla land, Asklund depicts this process. The novel is one of the first works ever focusing the forming of the Swedish welfare state project. The story is told in a cinematic or filmical way. The third novel to be analysed in the thesis is Fanfar med fem trumpeter. This is one of the first Swedish jazz novels. Asklund tells the story about five young unemployed men in Stockholm who form a jazz orchestra, and make a career. The novels characters experience everyday life as “medialized”; they compare reality with music, film, and photography. These novels, as well as all Asklund’s writings from the 1930’s, are important contributions to the “story about Sweden becoming a modern country”. This “story” consists of the novels, short stories and poems written in the early decades of the 20th century in Sweden.

Esta tesis estudia las alteraciones de la vida urbana en la calle d'en Robador del barrio del Raval de Barcelona como consecuencia de las intervenciones urbanísticas que allí se han producido en los últimos veinte años. Las incisiones urbanísticas en el Raval han comportado destrucción de patrimonio arquitectónico, habitacional y cultural de gran valor. Asimismo, han generado expulsiones de población, y en cierta medida y en ciertas zonas, su substitución por otra de mayor capacidad de dispendio. Se ha realizado un rastreo histórico sobre el Raval poniendo énfasis en las sucesivas culturas de control aplicadas allí sobre una población caracterizada por un elevado componente obrero y descapitalizado. Esto es complementado por una etnografía crítica de la calle citada -llevada a cabo entre los años 2010 y 2012, que ofrece una actualización de la perspectiva con el fin de establecer las persistencias y recurrencias que los sucesivos gobernantes han ensayado en lo que han sido hasta hoy los “bajos fondos” de la ciudad, el mítico “Barrio Chino”. / This thesis explores changes of urban life on d'en Robador street on the Raval district of Barcelona as a result of urban interventions that have occurred there in the past twenty years. The urbanistic incisions in the Raval had destroyed urban heritage, architectural, residential and cultural valuable assets. Furthermore, they resulted in population expulsions, and -to some extent, and in certain areas- its replacement by people of greater income. Historical tracking on Raval neighbourhood has been made, emphasizing the observation on successive control cultures applied there over an impoverished population with a marked working class profile. This is complemented by a critical ethnography performed between 2010 and 2012 in the above-named street that brings that perspective up to date to establish the persistence and recurrence in the successive governments action on what has been up to today the "underworld" of the city, the mythical "Chinatown".