For the past several years, the term social sustainability has gained a strong foothold within urban studies and has become a pervasive and trendy term that seems to be on everyone’s lips. Public space is widely acknowledged as an important urban feature, often in association with the social sustainability. As cities around the world are experiencing rapid population growth, creating meaningful and enjoyable public spaces is more important than ever. The heightened interest in social sustainability, public spaces and placemaking (as a physical manifestation of social sustainability) has led to the emergence of several urban intervention movements, such as Tactical Urbanism. In 2012, for the first time in Los Angeles’ history, this tactic was used to transform a car trafficked street in Silver Lake into a pedestrian friendly public space: the Sunset Triangle Plaza. The aim of this thesis is to, by studying the use and function of the plaza after the conversion, highlight how a broad concept such as social sustainability can be understood from a relatively small-scale public space intervention. The case study was conducted during the spring and summer of 2018, using a variety of data sources including interviews and observations of the plaza during February and March 2018. Two interviews were conducted with managers of the businesses directly adjacent to the plaza. Moreover, street surveys were conducted on two different occasions to ask the public about their use and opinions about the plaza. The results from the case study are presented to illustrate the real-life experience of the theories about social sustainability, public space and a discussion regarding “Whose Public Space?”, when applied at a local context. The findings were then further divided into three categories: usage (what type of activities did the installation enable?), users (for whom were they enabled?) and change (indicators of how the site has changed), reflecting the notions of Tactical Urbanism. While certain changes have been merely “tactical”, others were more substantial; businesses flourished, traffic safety increased, the space has become a meeting place and therefore, it has now got an identity. Immediate change was evident in the process of the physical change when the plaza was constructed, but what has also followed is a continuous change. Even though the plaza with its painted dots may not look like much, a new space for engagement and interaction has been created, both physically and mentally. In addition, converting a street for the cars into a plaza dedicated to pedestrians is especially symbolic in a city like Los Angeles, where the automobile has been the predominant mean of transport for the last 60 years and instrumental in shaping the city’s layout. However, the case study also showed that it is one thing to launch a Tactical Urbanism initiative and another thing to maintain it and achieve long-term social changes. The examined concepts and models to evaluate whether a public space can be considered successful are not always useful. The Sunset Triangle Plaza has certainly changed, but it has implied a continuous change – for better and for worse. Thus, this study also shows that it is evident that the idea of the “organically emerged” city can imply both opportunities and limitations.

Denna studie syftar till att utreda hur Linköpings kommun och andra aktörer arbetar för en levande och attraktiv stadskärna i Linköping. Samt identifiera positiva och negativa aspekter med Linköpings stadskärnan. Studien har utgått ifrån ett teoretiskt ramverk baserat på Jacobs (1986), Gehls (2010) och Specks (2013) stadsplaneringsideal och deras syn på stadsplanering. För att besvara frågeställningar har en kvalitativ studie utförts, detta genom intervjuer med viktiga aktörer samt dokumentanalys av Linköping kommuns olika programdokument. Resultaten i studien visar på hur kommunen och olika aktörer arbetar för en levande stadskärna samt vilka strategier och åtgärder som används. Slutsatsen är att det finns en god fysisk utformning för en levande stadskärna, men att bilen fortfarande tar stor plats i stadskärnan. Det finns goda strategier i form av samverkan och temporär urbanism, men utrymme för förbättringar finns. Studien bidrar till att öka kunskap om strategier och åtgärder för att skapa en levande stadskärna. / This study aims to investigate how Linköping municipality and other participants work for a vibrant and attractive city center in Linköping. As well as identifying positive and negative aspects of Linköping's city centre. The study has been based on a theoretical framework based on Jacobs (1986), Gehl's (2010) and Speck's (2013) urban planning ideals and their views on urban planning. To answer questions, a qualitative study has been carried out, this through interviews with important actors and document analysis of Linköping municipality's various program documents. The results of the study show how the municipality and various actors work for a vibrant city center and which strategies and measures are used. The conclusion is that there is a good physical design for a lively city centre, but that the car still occupies a large place in the city centre. There are good strategies in the form of collaboration and temporary urbanism, but there is still room for improvement. The study contributes to increasing knowledge about strategies and measures to create a vibrant city centre.

This thesis project is dealing with the phenomenon of brownfields, which nowadays are a part of every city. For the site at Brno - Ponava the proposal suggests TEMPORARY USE as one of the possible strategic approaches for handling this issue and introduces a process-oriented urban development strategy. The main theme of the design is called ZERO URBANISM. The goal is that with a minimal investment, short construction time and fulfillment of overall principals of sustainability, it is possible to change the former football stadium into a platform for social life. With cooperation from the public and the city this can become a place with various activities and have the potential for economic growth. The expected effect is that the site becomes a CATALYST and INCUBATOR for future development of the undervalued neighborhood, having a cultural and economic impact on the site as well as within the surrounding city context.

Kiruna är staden som genomgår en omdanande process, där delar av staden nedmonteras medan en ny stadskärna etableras. Kiruna kommun har haft som ambition att omlokaliseringen och stadsomvandlingen ska understödjas av omfattande medborgardialoger. Där utvecklingsstrategierna sägs bygga på kirunabornas önskemål kring vad de föreställer sig att nya stadskärnan kan bli. Stadens befolkning behöver därmed förhålla sig till att delar av deras stad nedmonteras samtidigt som de ska föreställa sig en ny. Vi analyserar processen för detta utifrån nutida planeringsteori som betonar att kunskapen som kommer från att uppleva en stad har ett särskilt värde i planeringen. Det innebär att planerare, med sin expertkunskap, behöver vidga sitt arbetssätt. Från att vara de enda som besitter kapaciteten till att föreställa sig en ny stad, till att kunna tolka och omformulera anspråk som kommer från stadsinvånare. Således fokuserar vi på hur planerare och politiker har arbetat med att behandla den lokala kunskapen, för att skapa en djupare förståelse för strategiskapande procedurer. Det som är säreget med Kiruna kan läsas utifrån två aspekter. Den ena är att nedmontering skapar en unik och känslig situation, där planerare försökt söka efter vad som kirunaborna anser som värdefullt i sin stad och sedan omformulera det till något nytt. Den andra är att Kiruna kan karaktäriseras som en stad i den arktiska regionen. Dessa samhällen har genom historien planerats utifrån att expertkunskapen premierats och mer ofta än sällan har urbana modeller söderifrån importerats till arktiska stadsbyggandet. Numera börjar det gamla luckras upp och fler designers söker efter att jobba nära befolkningen i regionen för att skapa särskilda lokala uttryck. Genom att studera fallet Kiruna söker vi efter att skapa synergier mellan dessa två aspekter där den lokala kunskapen löper som en röd tråd genom processerna för avveckling och utveckling. Vårt empiriska material bygger på analyser från strategiska dokument och kvalitativa intervjuer med nyckelaktörer. Dessa nyckelaktörer har varit planerare och politiker som haft särskilt centrala roller i Kirunas stadsomvandling. Intervjuerna blir således deras berättelser och erfarenheter. Utifrån vårt insamlade empiriska material har vi format uppfattningen att dessa två aspekter för nedmontering och arktiskt stadsbyggande har en inverkan på hur planerare behandlat den lokala kunskapen samt hur den lokala kunskapen fått forma den nya stadskärnan. Det har betonats att detta inte är något vanligt stadsutvecklingsprojekt, utan omständigheterna kräver ett särskilt åtagande från planerarna med utökad hänsyn till invånarnas kunskap och omsorg för förlusten av deras stad. Därför har det funnits ett fokus på kvalitativa samtal med medborgarna. Nedmonteringen skapar möjligheter att forma strategier för ett stadsbyggande som frångår problem som återfinns i gamla stadskärnan, uttryckta av kirunabor. Det skapar även möjligheter att bygga en stad med ett långsiktigt perspektiv där gruvan inte längre kommer vara en lika stark lokal arbetsgivare. / Kiruna is a city that is undergoing a transformative process, where parts of the city are being dismantled while a new city center is being established. Kiruna municipality has had the ambition that the relocation and the urban transformation should be supported by extensive citizen dialogues. The strategies for development are claimed to be based on the Kiruna residents’ wishes about what they imagine the new city center to be like. Therefore, the town’s population needs to relate to the dismantling of parts of their city, while also imagining a new one. The analysis of this process is based on contemporary planning theory, which emphasizes that the knowledge that comes from experiencing a city has a particular value in the context of urban planning. This means that planners, with their expert knowledge, need to extend their way of working from being the only ones who possess the capacity to imagine a new city to being able to interpret and reformulate claims that come from city residents. In this essay we examine how planners and politicians have worked to process the local knowledge, to create a deeper understanding of strategy making procedures. What is unique about Kiruna can be interpreted from two aspects. One is that the dismantling of the city creates a distinct and sensitive situation, where planners have attempted to understand what Kiruna´s residents consider valuable in their city and then reformulate it into something new. The other one is that Kiruna can be characterized as a city in the Arctic region. Throughout history, these communities have been planned on the basis of expert knowledge, and more often than not, urban models have been imported from the south for Arctic urban development. Nowadays, the old ways are beginning to dissolve, and more designers are looking to work close to the people of the region to create special local expressions. By studying the Kiruna case, we seek to create synergies between these two aspects where local knowledge runs as a thread through the processes of dissolving and development. Our empirical material is based on analyzes from strategic documents and qualitative interviews with planners and politicians. These key actors have played central roles in Kiruna’s urban transformation. The interviews thus entail their stories and experiences. Based on our collected empirical material, we have formed the perception that these two aspects of dismantling and Arctic urban planning have an impact on how planners have treated local knowledge and how local knowledge has shaped the new city center. It has been emphasized that this is no ordinary urban development project. The circumstances require a special commitment from the planners with increased consideration for the residents’ knowledge, and care for the loss of their city. Therefore, there has been a focus on carrying out qualitative dialogues with citizens. The dismantling process creates potentials to formulate strategies for urban development that depart from problems found in the current city center, expressed by Kiruna residents. It also creates opportunities to build a city with a long-term perspective where the mine will no longer be as important as an employer.

I denna uppsats undersöks hur levande stadsrum kan skapas under vintern för att möjliggöra ett tryggt stadsrum med liv och rörelse utifrån ett teoretiskt ramverk som bygger på Gehl och temporär urbanism.  Undersökningen baseras på en fallstudie av ‘Levande Stockholm vinter’ och genomförs med kvalitativa intervjuer och dokumentanalys. Resultaten visar att Stockholms stad arbetar med målpunkter och aktivitetsmöjligheter för att möjliggöra för levande ytor under vintern. Att arbeta med att levandegöra stadsrum under vintern handlar om att skapa förutsättningar för en miljö som lockar invånare till frivilliga aktiviteter. Temporär urbanism kan användas som ett verktyg för att testa olika lösningar i stadsrummet med målet att möjliggöra aktivering för ett trivsamt, användbart och levande vinterstadsrum. Resultaten pekar också på att temporära åtgärder kan medföra en ökad känsla av trygghet och omhändertagande av en plats. / This thesis explores how vibrant urban spaces can be created during winter to enable a safe urban space with vitality and movement, based on a theoretical framework built on Gehl and temporary urbanism. The thesis is based on a case study of ‘Levande Stockholm vinter’ and is conducted through qualitative interviews and document analysis. The results indicate that establishing target points and activity opportunities are necessary to enable lively spaces during winter. Vitalizing urban spaces during winter involves creating conditions for an environment that attracts residents to engage in optional activities. Temporary urbanism can serve as a tool to test various solutions in urban spaces with the aim of activating the environment for a pleasant, functional, and vibrant urban space. The results also indicate that temporary uses can lead to an increased sense of safety and care for a place.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo discutir a importância de uma postura resiliente para a busca do urbanismo sustentável. O termo \"sustentável\" e suas variantes passaram por um desgaste nas últimas décadas, formando uma barreira prejudicial à sua aplicação efetiva. A \"resiliência\", surge, então, como uma forma de revisitar a questão, através de um conceito oriundo da física, que possibilita conceber uma transposição teórica para a arquitetura e o urbanismo, disciplinas nas quais o tema pode colaborar na formulação de novas ferramentas e conceitos aplicáveis ao planejamento e projeto. Almeja-se, através da sua conceituação teórica, contribuir para a elaboração de uma postura resiliente e promover o termo \"resiliência urbana\" em direção ao enfrentamento da crise urbana, ocasionada pelo crescimento vertiginoso da urbanização mundial e da consequente aglomeração populacional nas cidades. Nos países em desenvolvimento, essa abordagem pode ser de grande utilidade, dado que a crise urbana é fortalecida pelo avanço da informalidade e pela formação de novos tecidos urbanos às margens do planejamento. O conceito de resiliência, neste caso, possibilita uma discussão voltada às questões de espontaneidade, improvisos, constantes mudanças e transformações, inerentes à condição urbana, se discutido dentro de uma abordagem de Sistemas Adaptativos Complexos. Para tanto, elaborou-se uma análise reflexiva, a fim de aferir a transferência da teoria para prática, a partir de três projetos urbanos já implantados: as intervenções em torno da Línea K, em Medellín, Colômbia, o sistema teleférico do Complexo do Alemão e o Parque Sitiê, ambos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir daí, pôde-se constatar que a visão sistêmica adaptativa e complexa da resiliência traz a possibilidade de promover a inter-relação entre sociedade, economia e ambiente na construção do meio urbano e, assim, encorajar uma nova postura frente a difusão de um Urbanismo Sustentável. / The present dissertation aims to discuss the importance of a resilient posture in the search for a sustainable urbanism. The term \"sustainable\" and its variants have gone through a wear and tear through the last few decades, forming a barrier which prejudices its effective application. The \"resilience\" term then appears as a way of revisiting this matter, through a concept derived from physics, that allows a theoretical transposition to architecture and urbanism disciplines in which the subject can cooperate in the formulation of new tools and concepts that can be applied into planning and project design process. Over the theoretical conception, it is intended the contribution on the elaboration of a resilient attitude and therefore promotes the term \"urban resilience\" towards the current urban crisis, caused by the dramatical growth of the world urbanization and the consequent population cluster within cities. In developing countries, the approach can be very useful, given that the urban crisis is strengthened by the rise of informality and the formation of new urban networks at the edge of planning actions. The concept of resilience, in this case, enables a discussion focused on spontaneity issues, improvisations, changes and transformations, inherent to the urban condition, discussed within a Complex Adaptive Systems approach. However to elaborate a reflexive analysis it is necessary to verify the transformation of theory into practice from three urban projects already implemented: Line K\'s urban interventions in Medellín, Colombia, cable car system at Alemão Complex and Sitiê Park, both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In conclusion, an adaptive and complex systemic view of resilience has the potential to promote an interrelationship between society, economy and environment during the construction of an urban environment and therefore encourage a new attitude towards the diffusion of Sustainable Urbanism.

Esta tese de doutorado discute o processo de planejamento e construção de equipamentos esportivos e de lazer públicos em três cidades da América do Sul, entre os anos de 1920 e 1955, período marcado pela massificação do esporte como prática e como espetáculo urbano. Esse processo teve seu início nas primeiras décadas do século XX, quando passou a ser cada vez mais comum a construção de estádios, ginásios, piscinas, clubes esportivos, velódromos, praças de jogos infantis, equipamentos esportivos no interior de conjuntos escolares e universitários, impulsionados tanto pelo poder público quanto pelo setor privado. Ademais, nesse período, foram institucionalizados os eventos esportivos locais e internacionais como parte da oferta de entretenimento urbano. Centrada em diferentes episódios da história urbana e cultural de Montevidéu, Santiago e São Paulo, a tese defende a hipótese de que a urbanização esportiva foi o resultado da ação de uma série de agentes que, conduzidos por ideias e interesses diversos, promoveram a construção de equipamentos esportivos no continente. Mediante a consolidação de interações, práticas, políticas e instituições, esse conjunto de agentes criou o campo social do urbanismo esportivo. É possível afirmar que o urbanismo esportivo foi impulsionado por quatro grandes agendas: o crescimento da indústria esportiva do espetáculo; a incorporação do esporte e da educação física às políticas sanitárias e educacionais; o desenvolvimento de discursos nacionalistas que integraram esporte, fortalecimento dos corpos e patriotismo; e as visões de agentes públicos e privados que conceberam os equipamentos esportivos como parte de operações imobiliárias maiores. Ao longo da tese será demonstrado como a produção desses espaços foi resultado de uma trama tensa de forças em disputa, mobilizada por agendas, práticas e referenciais teóricas diferentes. Procedentes de campos de conhecimento e de ação tão diversos como a política, a educação, a medicina, o jornalismo, a engenharia, a arquitetura e o planejamento urbano, argumento que esses discursos foram fundamentais para definir os equipamentos esportivos como bens públicos socialmente necessários, elaborar políticas públicas de incentivo à sua construção e participar dos debates sobre a localização, a construção e a elaboração de programas de uso desses locais. / This dissertation analyses the sport and leisure facilities\' production in three important South American cities, during the 1920-1955 period, when the practice of physical activities and sport was on the rise. This process started during the first decades of the 20th century, when stadia, gymnasia, swimming pools, sporting clubs, velodromes, playgrounds, and other sport facilities within schools and university campuses were often erected by public and/or private agents. That was a time when local and international sporting events were also institutionalized as a part of the urban entertainment offer. Focused on key episodes of the urban history of Montevideo, Santiago and São Paulo, this dissertation tests the following hypothesis: the development of sport and leisure facilities was the result of the combined action of different agents, through the conformation of new practices, policies and institutions. Sport urbanism was guided by four main agendas: the growth of a sport spectacle industry; the incorporation of sport and physical education to heart policies and the education curriculum; the development of nationalist narratives that related sports, fitness and patriotism; and the idea of public and private agents who understood sport facilities as part of major real estate business opportunities. This work demonstrates how the development of sport facilities was the combined result of opposing social forces, mobilized by diverse agendas, interests and theoretical references. Those narratives, originated in various professional fields, such as politics, education, medicine, journalism, engineering, architecture and urbanism; were fundamental in the definition of sport facilities as social needs, drafting public policies to encourage their planning and building, and taking part in the debates about their location, financing strategies and final uses.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Ana Carolina Carvalho Farias - 2018.pdf: 29542893 bytes, checksum: 53b0284234a19e601a1df1bf59490dc0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Cities are formed by a set of official practices supported by their normative institutions, and also by unofficial practices, that escape the norms and that bring other possibilities, other urgencies. The term tactical urbanism began to be used in the first decade of the 21st century to designate such practices in urbanism, referring generally to temporary, informal and somewhat contentious urban interventions in official practices and contemporary cities. However, the theoretical, artistic and political references of the practitioners of Tactical Urbanism refer to a much broader and complex role of practices that are often presented as an alternative to the Neoliberal Urbanism, currently hegemonic in the production of cities. However, there is still a certain theoretical and methodological gap regarding the tactical movements of urban production, which make it difficult to understand their capabilities and analyze their effects. In this sense, this research tried to construct a conceptual panorama on the Tactical Urbanism, exemplified with several practitioners and practices, sometimes called as such, sometimes indifferent to the term but within it. For this, a Taxonomy of Tactical Urbanism was elaborated, which brings eleven categories of analysis, elaborated in eighty-four subcategories, with the purpose of providing a reading for such practices and facilitating the articulation between their ideas, agents and objectives. For the elaboration of the Taxonomy, forty practices were charted and cataloged, exemplifying the various narratives that compose the discourse of urban tactics, representative of the work of great exponents of this discourse and also of the urban realities of the five continents. The Taxonomy is available on online platform, which allows the processing of complex data and collaborative data feeding. In this study, we demonstrate several ways of using the Taxonomy of Tactical Urbanism, among them, the triangulation between specific categories with the objective of verifying how Tactical Urbanism contributes in the fight for the right to the city, in the constitution of urban commons and in the confrontation with Neoliberal Urbanism. This articulation allowed us to conclude that the tactical self-denominated practices, closer to what was popularized with the label of Tactical Urbanism, present generally fragile arrangements as alternative possibilities to the neoliberal city, while the practices that are better able to promote the right to the city and to experience the constitution of commons, are those that take the tactic beyond the tactic, combining it in strategic movements, more aligned with the traditional struggles for urban justice. Such a conclusion reveals the need for critical thinking to better subsidize such actions, helping to circumvent the pitfalls and enhance the capacities of collaboration, participation and empowerment of multitude, which Tactical Urbanism can bring as contributions to the construction of more just cities. / As cidades são formadas por um conjunto de práticas oficiais sustentadas por suas instituições normativas e, também, por práticas não oficiais, que escapam às normas e que trazem outras possibilidades, outras urgências. O termo Urbanismo Tático passou a ser utilizado na primeira década do Século XXI para designar tais práticas em urbanismo, referindo-se, geralmente, a intervenções urbanas temporárias, informais e de certa forma contestadoras às práticas oficiais e às cidades contemporâneas. Porém, as referências teóricas, artísticas e políticas dos praticantes do Urbanismo Tático remetem a um rol muito mais amplo e complexo de práticas que se colocam, frequentemente, como alternativa ao Urbanismo Neoliberal, atualmente hegemônico na produção das cidades. No entanto, há ainda um certo vazio teórico e metodológico no que diz respeito aos movimentos táticos da produção urbana, que dificultam compreender suas capacidades e analisar seus efeitos. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa buscou construir um panorama conceitual sobre o Urbanismo Tático, exemplificado com diversos praticantes e práticas, ora autodenominadas como tal, ora indiferentes ao termo mas enquadráveis a ele. Para tanto, foi elaborada uma Taxonomia do Urbanismo Tático, que traz onze categorias de análise, esmiuçadas em oitenta e quatro subcategorias, com o objetivo de fornecer uma leitura para tais práticas e facilitar a articulação entre suas ideias, seus agentes e objetivos. Para a elaboração da Taxonomia foram cartografadas e catalogadas quarenta práticas, exemplificativas das várias narrativas que compõem o discurso das táticas urbanas, representativas do trabalho de grandes expoentes desse discurso e, também, das realidades urbanas dos cinco continentes. A Taxonomia encontra-se disponível em plataforma on line, que permite o tratamento de dados complexos e a alimentação colaborativa de dados. Neste estudo, são demonstradas várias formas de utilização da Taxonomia do Urbanismo Tático, dentre elas, a triangulação entre categorias específicas com o objetivo de verificar como o Urbanismo Tático contribui na luta pelo direito à cidade, na constituição de comuns urbanos e no enfrentamento ao Urbanismo Neoliberal. Tal articulação permitiu concluir que as práticas autodenominadas táticas, mais próximas daquilo que se popularizou com a etiqueta do Urbanismo Tático, apresentam arranjos geralmente frágeis como possibilidades alternativas à cidade neoliberal, enquanto as práticas que reúnem maiores condições de promoverem o direito à cidade e de experimentarem a constituição de comuns, são aquelas que levam a tática para além da tática, combinando-a em movimentos estratégicos, mais alinhados com as tradicionais lutas por justiça urbana. Tal conclusão revela a necessidade de o pensamento crítico melhor subsidiar tais ações, ajudando a contornar as ciladas e a potencializar as capacidades de colaboração, participação e empoderamento da multidão, que o Urbanismo Tático pode trazer como contribuições para a construção de cidades mais justas.

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo discutir a importância de uma postura resiliente para a busca do urbanismo sustentável. O termo \"sustentável\" e suas variantes passaram por um desgaste nas últimas décadas, formando uma barreira prejudicial à sua aplicação efetiva. A \"resiliência\", surge, então, como uma forma de revisitar a questão, através de um conceito oriundo da física, que possibilita conceber uma transposição teórica para a arquitetura e o urbanismo, disciplinas nas quais o tema pode colaborar na formulação de novas ferramentas e conceitos aplicáveis ao planejamento e projeto. Almeja-se, através da sua conceituação teórica, contribuir para a elaboração de uma postura resiliente e promover o termo \"resiliência urbana\" em direção ao enfrentamento da crise urbana, ocasionada pelo crescimento vertiginoso da urbanização mundial e da consequente aglomeração populacional nas cidades. Nos países em desenvolvimento, essa abordagem pode ser de grande utilidade, dado que a crise urbana é fortalecida pelo avanço da informalidade e pela formação de novos tecidos urbanos às margens do planejamento. O conceito de resiliência, neste caso, possibilita uma discussão voltada às questões de espontaneidade, improvisos, constantes mudanças e transformações, inerentes à condição urbana, se discutido dentro de uma abordagem de Sistemas Adaptativos Complexos. Para tanto, elaborou-se uma análise reflexiva, a fim de aferir a transferência da teoria para prática, a partir de três projetos urbanos já implantados: as intervenções em torno da Línea K, em Medellín, Colômbia, o sistema teleférico do Complexo do Alemão e o Parque Sitiê, ambos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir daí, pôde-se constatar que a visão sistêmica adaptativa e complexa da resiliência traz a possibilidade de promover a inter-relação entre sociedade, economia e ambiente na construção do meio urbano e, assim, encorajar uma nova postura frente a difusão de um Urbanismo Sustentável. / The present dissertation aims to discuss the importance of a resilient posture in the search for a sustainable urbanism. The term \"sustainable\" and its variants have gone through a wear and tear through the last few decades, forming a barrier which prejudices its effective application. The \"resilience\" term then appears as a way of revisiting this matter, through a concept derived from physics, that allows a theoretical transposition to architecture and urbanism disciplines in which the subject can cooperate in the formulation of new tools and concepts that can be applied into planning and project design process. Over the theoretical conception, it is intended the contribution on the elaboration of a resilient attitude and therefore promotes the term \"urban resilience\" towards the current urban crisis, caused by the dramatical growth of the world urbanization and the consequent population cluster within cities. In developing countries, the approach can be very useful, given that the urban crisis is strengthened by the rise of informality and the formation of new urban networks at the edge of planning actions. The concept of resilience, in this case, enables a discussion focused on spontaneity issues, improvisations, changes and transformations, inherent to the urban condition, discussed within a Complex Adaptive Systems approach. However to elaborate a reflexive analysis it is necessary to verify the transformation of theory into practice from three urban projects already implemented: Line K\'s urban interventions in Medellín, Colombia, cable car system at Alemão Complex and Sitiê Park, both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In conclusion, an adaptive and complex systemic view of resilience has the potential to promote an interrelationship between society, economy and environment during the construction of an urban environment and therefore encourage a new attitude towards the diffusion of Sustainable Urbanism.

Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planning and urban design practice. Instead, the structuring of “nature” and “city” into a dualistic balance relationship still permeates not only the general planning discourse, but also makes its way into planning documents, notably influencing distinctions between professions. In response, this thesis sets out to rethink and explore more integrated approaches to human/nature relationships, through the utilization of design-based and transdisciplinary research methods. While this core aim of the thesis remains the same throughout the work, the task is approached from different perspectives: through different constellations of collaborative work as well as through parallel case-based explorations that emphasize the relational, anti-essentialist and situated articulation of values of urban natures and how these forces come into play. The work has been propelled through workshop-based, site-specific, and experimental design processes with professionals and researchers from the fields of e.g. systems ecology, natural resource management, political ecology, urban design, architecture, and landscape design, as well as planners, developers, local interest groups, and NGOs. Specifically, projects performed within this thesis include: Nature as an Infrastructural Potential – An Urban Strategy for Järvafältet; Kymlinge UrbanNatur together with NOD, Wingårdhs, MUST and Storylab; Årsta Urban Natures with James Corner Field Operations and Buro Happold; and Albano Resilient Campus — a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre, KTH and KIT. / <p>QC 20171102</p>