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The Arts of the Grid
This is the first collection of interdisciplinary scholarship to expand on gridded modalities, with a strong affinity to the arts. It seeks to inspire new avenues of research by exploring a horizon of gridded relationships among humans, between humans and the environment, and between human and non-human actors. By bringing together philosophical themes and applied practices, the volume traces a genealogy of the "grid" as an exercise in grasping its inherent complexity and incomplete quality. A collective effort by a group of researchers, practitioners, and designers, it promotes an understanding of gridded modalities as complex networks that interact with other networks, generating new meanings and reflecting changes in thought.
Shaping Terrain
Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times. Most urban centers and capitals of Latin American countries are situated on or near dramatically varied terrain, and this book explores the interplay between built works and their geographies in various cities including Bogotá, Caracas, Mendoza, Mexico D. F., Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, and Valparaíso. The multi-national contributors to Shaping Terrain have a broad range of professional experience as urbanists, historians, and architects, and many are globally renowned for their design work. They examine how humans negotiate with the existing environment and how the built form expresses that relationship. The result is a wide-ranging representation of the unique legacy of Latin America’s urban heritage, which is a repository of possibilities for future cities.
Black Women against the Land Grab
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab explores how black women’s views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. In Black Women against the Land Grab, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights. She reveals the ...
Bahia's Independence
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled from Salvador in 1823, the culmination of a year-long war that gave independence a radical meaning in Bahia. Bahia's Independence traces the history of the Dois de Julho festival in Salvador, the Brazilian state's capital, from 1824 to 1900. Hendrik Kraay discusses how the festival draws on elements of saints' processions, carnivals, and civic ritual in the use of such distinctive features as the indigenist symbols of independence called th...
Afro-Latin American Studies
Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.
Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century
This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines present original research from a variety of case studies in a student-friendly format. Part introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America.
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.
Europa, França e Bahia
Nesta obra, a autora discute o processo de modernização e a constituição de um pensamento de prática urbanística no Brasil, analisando a influência europeia nas criações urbanas. O ponto de partida são as relações entre a reforma de Paris realizada em meados do século XIX pelo Barão Haussmann, a reforma capitaneada por Pereira Passos no Rio de Janeiro no início do século XX e a reforma ocorrida em Salvador durante a primeira gestão do Governador José Joaquim Seabra, entre os anos de 1912 e 1916.
A cidade como história
Neste livro, encontram-se reunidas colaborações relacionadas à sétima edição do Seminário de História da Cidade e do Urbanismo, ocorrido em 2002, em Salvador, por iniciativa do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). Busca contribuir para o adensamento da pesquisa neste campo, repensando a cidade a partir da história e da cultura e oferecendo uma ria e da cultura, oferecendo uma reflexesquisa nesse campo, repensando a cidade a partir da histreflexão sobre suas convergências e divergências, impasses e desafios, e possibilidades de interlocução dentro de um panorama aberto à perspectiva comparada internacional.
Urbanismo na América do Sul
Os textos reunidos nessa coletânea visam contribuir para ampliar as possibilidades de discussão sobre a história do urbanismo nessas décadas cruciais em que as cidades sul-americanas conhecem expressivas taxas de crescimento, o agravamento dos problemas urbanos e a busca, em várias frentes e de diferentes maneiras, de soluções para enfrentá-los. A partir de perspectivas diversas, eles buscam aproximar diferentes experiências nacionais, explorar singularidades, rastrear o surgimento de redes profissionais, mapear discussões, identificar enfim caminhos e descaminhos da construção de uma cultura urbanística no âmbito continental.
