Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Brazil : restructuring the urban / guest-edited by Hattie Hartman
Published London, UK : John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Architectural design, 1554-2769 ; volume 86, issue 3
Profile ; no 241
Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 86, no. 3. 1554-2769
Profile (Chichester, England) ; 241.
Contents Fore-thoughts : learning from Lerner / Jaime Lerner -- Introduction : seeds of change : urban transformation in Brazil / Hattie Hartman -- Where to for Brazil's cities? : citizen empowerment or global marketing? / Guilherme Wisnik -- A city at play : Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games / Ana Luiza Nobre -- Failing the informal city : how Rio de Janeiro's mega sporting events derailed the legacy of favela-bairro / Justin McGuirk -- Maps to hack, synchronise and decipher : unseen cartographies of Rio / Gabriel Duarte -- Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida : the resurgence of public space / Nanda Eskes and André Vieira -- Linking the formal and informal : favela urbanisation and social housing in São Paulo / Fernando Serapião -- Alternative visions of the Brazilian city : in conversation with Herzog & de Meuron senior partner Ascan Mergenthaler / Hattie Hartman -- Brasília : life beyond Utopia / Thomas Deckker -- Recife : the popular struggle for a better city / Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho -- Salvador : the struggle for dialogue within a heritage city / Sergio Ekerman -- Curitiba revisited : five decades of transformation / Mario do Rocio Rosário -- Landscaping Brazil : the legacy of Roberto Burle Marx / Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo -- Sustainability : a clarion call for a new approach / Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves -- Counterpoint : designing inequality? / Ricky Burdett
Summary Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country's citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent of the population live in metropolises of more than a million people. Whereas previously urban growth had been ad hoc, preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 12 cities across the country in 2014, and for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, changed all that. Several Brazilian cities have proactively invested in infrastructure and the public realm. And a number of projects by international s̀tarchitects' have heightened interest in Brazil from architects and urban practitioners abroad. The failure of public authorities to meet their ambitious aspirations for the sporting mega-events sparked a series of street protests across the country under the banner of t̀he right to the city', beginning in 2013. For Brazil, this was an entirely new phenomenon, one which has unveiled the potential for bottom-up influences to effect urban change. The focus of this issue, though, is on design projects that contribute a strong sense of place to their respective cities, highlighting also the integration of landscape design in urban planning and community interventions that seek to address the enormous disparity between the lives of the country's rich and poor. Contributors: Ricky Burdett, Thomas Deckker, Gabriel Duarte, Sergio Ekerman, Nanda Eskes and Andr Vieira, Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo, Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho, Joana Carla Soares Gonalves, Jaime Lerner, Ana Luiza Nobre, Justin McGuirk, Francesco Perrotta-Bosch, Maria do Rocio Rosrio, Fernando Serapiao, Guilherme Wisnik Featured architects: AECOM, Biselli Katchborian, Brasil Arquitetura, Santiago Calatrava, Studio Arthur Casas, Diller Scofdio + Renfro, Herzog & de Meuron, Vigliecca & Associados
Notes "May/June 2016."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley Online Library, viewed May 18, 2016)
Subject City planning -- Brazil
Urban renewal -- Brazil
OLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning
Urban renewal
Brazil
Form Electronic book
Author Hartman, Hattie, editor, author
ISBN 9781118972489
1118972481