In this thesis, I analys suburb- and housing planning and interior decoration carried out primarily in Stockholm between the 1930s and the 1950s. Functionalism, the overall concept of the period, has perhaps been interpreted in terms of ideological concepts, interpreted as "democratic" and as a progressive dividing line between the past and the future. I examine how housing and suburban planning in Sweden in the mid-20th century was affected by how housing and town planning related to that period's clear class boundaries and well-defined gender roles. I analyse both rhetoric and physical planning. Whether the architect had explicit ambitions to achieve spatial differentiation of socio-economic categories, how suburban planners dealt with their historical inheritance and the principles about categorisation and spatial separation. I also analyse how ideas of class, gender and spatial differentiation of family members affected the organisation and design of rooms in the housing planning of the mid-20th century. The general conclusion of the thesis as a whole is that ideas about class, sex and familial hierarchy were reflected in functionalist housing and interior decoration. The planned suburbs in Stockholm involved explicit strategies for differentiating population categories in different suburbs. The planned suburbs, which were regarded as paradigmatic cases for the suburban planning of the period, involved explicit strategies for differentiating population categories in different suburbs, a strategy that was concretised in physical suburban planning. Terraced housing in one area, småstugor in another, blocks of flats in a third, detached houses in a fourth. Sociological arguments justified this type of suburban planning. The emotional affinity between neighbours was considered to be better if the neighbours belong to the same socio economic category. Planned homes, which were regarded as paradigmatic cases for the housing planning of this period, involved explicit strategies for differentiating family members into different rooms, distinguishing between private and public rooms within the sphere of the home, a strategy that was concretised in physical housing planning. I analyse how the magazine's editorial content contributed to producing a middle-class housing ideal. A central aspect of modern housing planning and the debate in around 1930 was the launch of the home as an essentially private sphere. The editorial team behind the magazine Hem i Sverige launched the home as a reaction against the idea of the home as essentially a private sphere, with a clear spatial hierarchy and division between different family members, between private and public spheres. I examined the participation of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in the 1930 Stockholm exhibition. As an influential commercial actor, the store's management had a strategy of combining consumption with both benefit and enjoyment, dreams, pastimes and goal-oriented purchases. The starting point for Nordiska Kompaniet's interior decoration approach was the organisation and content of the upper middle-class home. The drawing rooms, the dining room, the serving area, the homes with clear dividing lines between private and public sphere. Family structures and familial hierarchy were emphasised on the basis of the upper middle-class family's tradition. / Forskarskolan för estetiska vetenskaper

Esta tese analisa os Planos Regionais Estratégicos das Subprefeituras do Butantã, Lapa, Pinheiros, Sé e Vila Mariana (Lei Municipal n0 13.885/04), com o objetivo de verificar a integração dos mesmos entre si e com o referencial fixo representado pelo Plano Diretor Estratégico do Município de São Paulo (Lei Municipal n0 13.430/02). O Plano Regional Estratégico de cada Subprefeitura deve se articular com o Plano Regional das Subprefeituras adjacentes e, quando for o caso, com os municípios limítrofes e a região metropolitana, devendo fazê-lo em um contexto relacional consistente. A questão da integração dos Planos Regionais foi examinada através dos seguintes temas: Rede Estrutural Hídrica Ambiental, Rede Viária Estrutural e Uso e Ocupação do Solo. A análise destas leis foi desenvolvida em um contexto de revisão dos paradigmas relativos ao exercício do planejamento urbano, desencadeado pela Lei Federal n0 10.257/2001 ? Estatuto da Cidade, que criou e regulamentou vários instrumentos da política urbana, vinculando-os ao plano diretor. / The present thesis analyzes the Strategic Regional Plans of Sub-Districts of Butantã, Lapa, Pinheiros, Sé and Vila Mariana (Municipal Law n0 13.885/04), with the purpose of verifying the aforementioned plans integration within themselves and with the fixed referential represented by the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo City (Municipal Law n0 13.430/02). The Strategic Regional Plan of each Sub-District must be articulated with the Regional Plan of adjacent Sub-districts, and with the adjoining cities and the metropolitan region, having it done in a consistent related context. The matter of the Regional Plans integration was analyzed through the following themes: Environmental Hydro Structural Network, Structural Roads Network, and Ground Use and Occupation. The analysis of such laws was developed within a context of review on paradigms related to urban planning work, unleashed by Federal Law n010.257/2001 ? City?s Decree, which created and regulated several instruments of urban politics, attaching them to the Master Plan.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-08-29T12:51:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FABIO JOSE FERRAZ.pdf: 5359849 bytes, checksum: 405ca512db785d9891a0970a0aea7bfc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-29T12:51:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FABIO JOSE FERRAZ.pdf: 5359849 bytes, checksum: 405ca512db785d9891a0970a0aea7bfc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-29 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This thesis examines Urban Operations in Consortium (OUCs) as a tool for planning, production and democratic governance of urban space, taking all the valid OUCs in S?o Paulo (Brazil) up to date as the object of research with the ongoing discussion about possible innovations brought to the model by the new OUC Bairros do Tamanduate? currently in analysis by C?mara Municipal de S?o Paulo (The Town Hall). Considering these innovations and the different political, institutional, economic and territorial contexts, we have asked how OUC Bairros do Tamanduate? may interfere in the contradiction between, on one hand, by the logics of financial and real estate markets immanent to the production of urban space and, on the other, by the warranty of the right to the city established by Estatuto da Cidade (the City Act) reinforced by the 2014?s S?o Paulo Master Plan, being differentiated from the previous ones and generating outputs befitting to its objectives. / A tese versa sobre as Opera??es Urbanas Consorciadas (OUCs) como instrumento de planejamento, produ??o e gest?o democr?tica do espa?o urbano, tendo como par?metros exemplos estrangeiros de grandes projetos urbanos e as OUCs atualmente vigentes na cidade de S?o Paulo atrelados aos seus diferentes contextos pol?tico-institucionais, econ?mico-financeiros e territoriais. Considerando as poss?veis inova??es trazidas ao modelo pela OUC Bairros do Tamanduate? ? atualmente um Projeto de Lei em an?lise na C?mara Municipal ? nos perguntamos se e como essa nova OUC pode interferir na contradi??o dada, por um lado, pela l?gica dos mercados imobili?rio e financeiro imanente ? produ??o do espa?o urbano e, por outro, pela garantia do direito ? cidade estabelecida pelo Estatuto da Cidade e refor?ada pelo Plano Diretor Estrat?gico de 2014 diferenciando-se, assim, de suas cong?neres e proporcionando resultados condizentes com seus objetivos e diretrizes.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-14T12:53:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Renato Pepe Filho.pdf: 2179663 bytes, checksum: 9b53c5a96b1cb846a79cfe7ce8816f6b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-14T12:53:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Renato Pepe Filho.pdf: 2179663 bytes, checksum: 9b53c5a96b1cb846a79cfe7ce8816f6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-09 / The main goal of the following dissertation is to analyze if Brazilian housing policies were, in fact, adherent to the goal of gradually reduce the housing deficit, or if as soon as they were put in action, and they have distorted their main goal. Regarding that, it is discussed in what measure were important those secondary goals, such as their use as a form of population control, in order to strengthen government force and because of the economic and social benefits obtained from the heating of the civil construction market, due to its big productive related chain (directs and indirect) and the great number of jobs created. Regardless of, another goal of this dissertation is to analyze in what measure the income inequalities (lack of a proper income distribution) is harmful to the success of housing policies in Brazil, discussing solutions that enable the reduction of this “financial distance” and highlighting some disabilities, like the tax system, which charges more the general consumption instead of the individual income. Will be analyzed in details the most relevant Brazilian housing policies, starting with “Sistema Financeiro da Habitação/Banco Nacional da Habitação”, and then focusing on the analyze of “Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida” – creation, apex and crisis / A presente dissertação objetiva primordialmente analisar se as políticas habitacionais brasileiras de fato estiveram aderentes à meta de reduzir o déficit habitacional, ou se tão logo passaram a existir, já se desvirtuaram deste objetivo principal. Nesse contexto indaga-se em que medida importaram objetivos secundários, como o controle das massas populacionais, o fortalecimento da propaganda de governo e os benefícios econômicos e sociais decorrentes de tais políticas, em razão da grande cadeia produtiva que envolve o setor da construção civil e dos empregos proporcionados. Não obstante, objetiva analisar também em que medida as desigualdades de renda (baixa distribuição de renda) prejudica a execução de programas habitacionais no Brasil, discutindo soluções que permitam distribuir melhor as riquezas produzidas e destacando alguns fatores que criam dificuldades a isso, como o sistema tributário que é mais direcionado à taxação do consumo e menos à renda individual. Serão analisadas detalhadamente as principais políticas de habitação popular no Brasil, a começar pelo Sistema Financeiro da Habitação/Banco Nacional da Habitação, para depois aprofundar a análise do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida – surgimento, ápice e crise

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:22:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LILIANE ALVES BENATTI.pdf: 9103577 bytes, checksum: 7896dfbd619623aa555a4f6ee28c77a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-14 / To contribute to discussions involving the solving of urban environmental problems, the thesis assumes that certain approaches, by themselves suffice to situational analyzes, are powerless to deal with the structural nature of the lining. In the Brazilian case, and with regard to territorial public policies, such as urban planning and urban and regional planning,discussions generally restricted to the field of administrative law, predominantly instrumental in character, whose effects invariably limited to specific actions, topical and devoid of virtue to reach the root causes of urban issue. And more. They reappear with the contemporary environmental crisis. Another factor that affects decisively reflection and proposition urban instruments developed with a view to solving the urban problems is the application of the concept applied to management of public affairs. Originally conceived in the context of organizations, employment management, to migrate to public administration, reduces the understanding of the political dimension to the city's plan merely negotiated territorial management. This also proves insufficient, which will be addressed through a particularly significant that relates environmental and urban issues: the National Policy on Solid Waste. / Visando contribuir nos debates que envolvem o equacionamento da problem?tica urbanoambiental, a disserta??o parte do pressuposto de que certas abordagens, por se bastarem ?s an?lises conjunturais, s?o impotentes para lidar com a natureza estrutural que as revestem. No caso brasileiro, e no que diz respeito ?s pol?ticas p?blicas territoriais, como o urbanismo e o planejamento urbano e regional, as discuss?es geralmente restringem-se ao campo do direito administrativo, de car?ter predominantemente instrumental, cujos efeitos invariavelmente limitam-se ?s a??es pontuais, t?picas e desprovidas da virtude de atingir as causas origin?rias da quest?o urbana. E mais. Elas recrudescem com a crise ambiental contempor?nea. Outro fator que compromete, decisivamente, a reflex?o e a proposi??o de instrumentos urban?sticos desenvolvidos, com vistas ao equacionamento da problem?tica urbana, ? a aplica??o da no??o de gest?o aplicada ? coisa p?blica. Originariamente concebida no contexto das organiza??es, o emprego da gest?o, ao migrar para a administra??o p?blica, reduz o entendimento da dimens?o pol?tica da cidade ao plano meramente negociado de gest?o territorial. Isso tamb?m se mostra insuficiente, o que ser? abordado por meio de um caso particularmente significativo que relaciona quest?es urbanas e ambientais: a Pol?tica Nacional de Res?duos S?lidos.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:22:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LIGYA HRYCYLO BIANCHINI 1-100.pdf: 2177620 bytes, checksum: 22fb807ed5544c504a677bb22098d4b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-12 / Driven by the coffee economy, the center of Sao Paulo city acquired the character of centrality within the first decades of the twentieth century. Initiated the occupation of the central areas by trade and services, the expansion of the city were developed quickly and disordered, with occupancy of flood plains and hillsides, by sub-housing, despised by the population with higher purchasing power, initiating a process of social segregation. On the other hand, the intensity of activity in the cities attracted a population coming from Field, from the opening of new work fronts, in a period that industrial production gained strength. This population, largely formed by immigrants and no buying power to becoming the owner or renting a property near the job, had to resort to tenements as the only way to setting residence in the city. However, from the 1970s, the center began to show a decrease of resident population, thanks to to displacement of the financial activities for new centers, accompanied by the formation of new residential neighborhoods of higher income classes, leaving a large number of empty or underused buildings. In a first moment, the study sought to understand the current state of housing in downtown Sao Paulo, in a broad way, mapping and systematizing data on public and private initiatives aimed at increasing new housing or rehabilitation in downtown (understood as historical center and expanded). Then the study will gain interplay more analytical, order to show whether in fact there is an ongoing housing policy with the prospect of urban regeneration of downtown Sao Paulo. This stage also sought to understand the social reach of these endeavors. For such, has revised to the current literature on the housing issue in central areas and analyzed the nature of the plans, programs and projects proposed in the last ten years in the city of S?o Paulo. / Impulsionado pela economia cafeeira, o centro da cidade de S?o Paulo adquiriu o car?ter de centralidade j? nas primeiras d?cadas do s?culo XX. Iniciada a ocupa??o das ?reas centrais pelo com?rcio e os servi?os, a expans?o da cidade se deu de forma r?pida e desordenada, com a ocupa??o de ?reas de v?rzeas e encostas por sub-habita??es, desprezadas pela popula??o de maior poder aquisitivo, dando in?cio a um processo de segrega??o social. Por outro lado, a intensidade das atividades nas cidades atraiu uma popula??o vinda do campo, a partir da abertura de novas frentes de trabalho, num per?odo em que a produ??o industrial ganhou for?a. Essa popula??o, em grande parte formada por imigrantes e sem poder aquisitivo para se tornar propriet?ria ou alugar um im?vel pr?ximo ao emprego, teve que recorrer aos corti?os como ?nica forma de se fixar na cidade. Por?m, a partir da d?cada de 1970, o centro come?ou a apresentar um decr?scimo de popula??o residente, gra?as ao deslocamento das atividades financeiras para novas centralidades, acompanhado da forma??o de novos bairros residenciais de classes de maior renda, deixando um grande n?mero de edif?cios vazios ou subutilizados. Num primeiro momento, o estudo procurou compreender o estado atual da habita??o no centro de S?o Paulo, de forma ampla, mapeando e sistematizando dados sobre as iniciativas p?blicas e privadas voltadas para o incremento de novas habita??es ou reabilita??es no centro (entendido como centro hist?rico e expandido). Em seguida o estudo ganha um cunho mais anal?tico, visando mostrar se de fato est? em curso uma pol?tica habitacional com a perspectiva de reabilita??o urbana do centro de S?o Paulo. Esta etapa buscou tamb?m compreender o alcance social destes empreendimentos. Para tal, revisou-se a literatura atual sobre a quest?o habitacional em ?reas centrais e analisou-se a natureza dos planos, programas e projetos propostos nos ?ltimos dez anos na cidade de S?o Paulo.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-05-15T16:27:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Almeida Santos.pdf: 3540780 bytes, checksum: d16440e6e503d3d008d412d19bcca289 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-15T16:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Almeida Santos.pdf: 3540780 bytes, checksum: d16440e6e503d3d008d412d19bcca289 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-04 / The thesis is that the conflict is the main cause of the postponement (by the government) of actions that could solve or mitigate the problems related to the occupation of water source regions in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The overall objective of the research is to propose strategies to confront the conflict to the government and thus, open possibilities to contain the invasion and remove invaders from areas of springs. The specific objectives are (1) to present and analyze the strategies of the players (government and invader) based on the theory of Nash equilibrium and (2) to highlight the importance of game theory and in particular, Nash equilibrium as method to elaborate proposal conflict resolution according to selected strategies. The research methodology is qualitative and quantitative. The quantitative research is based on the data required for the use of game theory (urban spot growth, real estate prices, among others) and numerical simulations arranged in matrices. The qualitative, in the study of the literature on the problem of the occupation of springs that in turn, led to the design of possible strategies (for the solution of problems) / A tese sustentada neste trabalho é que o conflito é a principal causa do adiamento (por parte do governo) de ações que poderiam solucionar ou mitigar os problemas relativos à ocupação de regiões de mananciais na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é propor estratégias de enfrentar o conflito para o governo e assim, abrir possibilidades de conter a invasão e remover invasores de áreas de mananciais. Os objetivos específicos são (1) apresentar e analisar as estratégias dos jogadores (governo e invasor) com base na teoria do Equilíbrio de Nash e (2) destacar a importância da teoria dos jogos e em particular do Equilíbrio de Nash como método para elaborar proposta de solução do conflito de acordo com estratégias selecionadas. A metodologia da pesquisa é qualitativa e quantitativa. A pesquisa quantitativa está no levantamento dos dados necessários à utilização da teoria dos jogos (crescimento da mancha urbana, preços dos imóveis, entre outros) e nas simulações numéricas dispostas em matrizes. A qualitativa, no estudo da literatura sobre o problema da ocupação de mananciais que por sua vez, levou ao desenho das estratégias possíveis (para a solução dos problemas). As simulações elaboradas a partir da teoria dos jogos mostraram que a melhor estratégia para a solução do conflito é que o governo remunere o invasor para preservar a região ocupada

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Pires Pereira.pdf: 1326346 bytes, checksum: e64f2ca0eb9e6e6f424af04e31de1923 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-25 / The main objective of this dissertation is to demonstrate that the prediction of housing rights in International Human Rights norms and their explicit inclusion on the list of the social rights of the Brazilian Federal Constitution imposes on states and individuals the obligation to protect and promote this right to socially and economically vulnerable citizens. This theoretical research finds strength in fundamental constitutional principles of urban policy and understanding of the right to housing as a fundamental social right rooted in the principles of human dignity, citizenship, equality, non-discrimination, solidarity, and the review of legal institutions and property ownership in the light of social function. The new approach to access to Justice is the instrumental bond for claiming the right to housing before Government, especially through the exercise of the powers conferred to the Public Defender by the constitutional legislator. The proposed results are the implementation of the fundamental social right to housing through a rights education, mediation and international mechanisms of protection, as well as the bringing of legal individual and collective actions for social protection of this right in a defensive and comprehensive perspective of fundamental rights / O principal objetivo desta dissertação é demonstrar que a previsão do direito à moradia na normativa internacional de Direitos Humanos e a sua inclusão de forma expressa no rol dos direitos sociais da Constituição Federal brasileira impõe aos Estados e aos particulares a obrigação de proteger e promover esse direito aos cidadãos social e economicamente vulneráveis. Essa investigação teórica encontra solidez nos princípios constitucionais fundamentais da política urbana e na compreensão do direito à moradia como direito fundamental social de raízes nos princípios da dignidade da pessoa humana, da cidadania, da igualdade e não-discriminação e da solidariedade, e na releitura dos institutos jurídicos da posse e da propriedade à luz da função social. O novo enfoque de acesso à Justiça consiste no elo instrumental para reivindicação do direito à moradia perante o Poder Público, especialmente pelo exercício das atribuições conferidas à Defensoria Pública pelo legislador constituinte. Os resultados propostos são a efetivação do direito fundamental social à moradia através da educação em direitos, da mediação e dos mecanismos internacionais de proteção, bem como a propositura de ações judiciais individuais e coletivas para justiciabilidade desse direito social na perspectiva defensiva e prestacional dos direitos fundamentais

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Levin.pdf: 1950884 bytes, checksum: fa2a64b069164fa0f3e3dc4e9f12ebc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-20 / The Brazilian constitutional system imposes upon the State the responsibility for organizing living spaces in search of the full development of the social functions of the city. In order to perform such task, the Government has at its disposal a number of legal, usable instruments according to the type of intervention in the urban space that it is willing to carry out. Among these instruments, there is the syndicated urban operation, under Law 10.257/2001 (articles 32 to 34 ) self entitled City Statute . This is a typical institute of concerted planning, a method of organization of urban fabric characterized by partnership between government and private enterprise. It turns out that the implementation of syndicated urban operation performed by some Brazilian municipalities has been the subject of severe criticism from lawyers and planners. It is claimed that the result of the operations is only favorable to the real estate market and that the modification of occupancy rates ultimately contributes to the already excessive verticalization of large Brazilian cities. Results like these are contrary to the legal principles that guide urban policy, in special the ones displayed in the Federal Constitution (article 182) and Federal Law No. 10.257/2001 (article 2). This inconsistency makes the process of implementing the syndication an illegitimate action. However, the negative experiences on the application of this statute should not preclude its use in favor of urban structural improvement and to make the best of environment. This research seeks to demonstrate that the system of rules (rules and principles) of urban law is made up so as to avoid the application of distorted urban instruments in general and the syndicated operation in particular. If applied in accordance with the principles of urban law, concerted action can achieve its dual goal: to promote the reform of the living spaces and avoid the use of public funds in urban operations / A ordem constitucional brasileira impõe ao Estado a função de organizar os espaços habitáveis, em busca do pleno desenvolvimento das funções sociais da cidade. Para se desincumbir desse dever, o Poder Público tem ao seu dispor uma série de instrumentos jurídicos, utilizáveis de acordo com o tipo de intervenção no espaço urbano que se quer realizar. Dentre tais instrumentos, destaca-se a operação urbana consorciada, prevista na Lei 10.257/2001 (arts.32 a 34), autointitulada Estatuto da Cidade. Trata-se de um instituto típico do urbanismo concertado, método de organização do tecido urbano caracterizado pela parceria entre o Poder Público e a iniciativa privada. Ocorre que a aplicação da operação urbana consorciada por parte dos Municípios brasileiros que utilizam o instrumento tem sido objeto de críticas severas por parte de juristas e urbanistas. Alega-se que o resultado das operações é favorável apenas ao mercado imobiliário, e que a alteração dos índices de ocupação acaba por contribuir para a já excessiva verticalização das grandes cidades brasileiras. Resultados como esses são contrários aos princípios jurídicos que norteiam a política urbana, estampados, em especial, na Constituição Federal (art.182) e na Lei Federal nº10.257/2001 (art.2º). Tal dissonância torna o processo de implantação da ação consorciada ilegítimo. Todavia, as experiências práticas negativas de utilização do instituto não devem impedir a sua utilização em prol da melhoria urbanística estrutural e da valorização ambiental. A presente pesquisa procura demonstrar que o sistema de normas (regras e princípios) do direito urbano é construído de forma a evitar a aplicação desvirtuada dos instrumentos urbanísticos em geral e da operação consorciada em particular. Desde que aplicada em consonância com as normas principiológicas do direito urbano, a ação concertada pode atingir o seu duplo objetivo: promover a reforma dos espaços habitáveis e evitar o uso de recursos públicos na atividade urbanística

O trabalho procura compreender o processo de estagnação urbana do distrito do Pari, um fenômeno que ocorre em determinadas áreas da metrópole como uma forma de criarem fronteiras de expansão ao capital imobiliário. Para compreender como esse processo ocorreu no distrito do Pari foi analisada a história da formação geográfica do bairro, a história social e demográfica, a história da atividade imobiliária e econômica e a história da Política pública do espaço. O processo ocorrido no Pari mostrou que o distrito concentra diversas atividades, usos, estrutura e população que, na verdade, podem ser considerados estagnados. Mas, mais importante do que a estagnação, é o fato que a sociedade considera essas atividades, usos, estrutura e população com desprezo e isso é uma forma ideológica que traz este conceito, uma vez que é associado com as classes mais pobres. / This thesis seeks the understanding the process of urban stagnation that took place in the District of Pari, São Paulo, Brazil. Urban stagnation is understood as a process which occurs in certain areas of a metropolis as a means of establishing barriers for the expansion of real estate capital. For the purpose of understanding how this process has occurred in that district it is analyzed its demographic, geographic, urban-spatial, economic, social and governmental history. Similarities and differences between different central districts of São Paulo are studied in order to understand the process Pari has undergone. It was shown that the district concentrates several activities, land uses, structures and population which, in fact, may be considered stagnant, but more important than that is the fact that society as a whole looks upon such activities, population, structures and land uses, with scorn and that stagnation is an ideological way of conveying that contempt, since they are associated with lower social classes.