Banca de DEFESA: PIERO CARAPIÁ LIMA BAPTISTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PIERO CARAPIÁ LIMA BAPTISTA
DATE: 13/07/2022
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Faculdade de Arquitetura
TITLE:

CHRONIC PROBLEMS, ARTIFICIALITY AND ILLUSION
Urban production on the periphery of capitalism, a look at the Historic Center of Salvador

KEY WORDS:

chronic urban problems, urban artificiality, Historic Center of Salvador, creative districts, periphery of capitalism, gentrification.

PAGES: 663
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: História do Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The thesis seeks to investigate the processes of contemporary urban transformation of the city on the periphery of capitalism according to neoliberal practices, discourses and agendas that lead to illusory urban products and urban artificialities. For this, the investigation was based on specific national and international academic literature, document analysis, interviews and primary data, taking the city of Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) as its specific object, especially part of the Historic Center of Salvador (HCS), such as Rua Chile and surroundings. The structure of the work starts from the analysis of the broader context, identifying logics and phenomena that dialogue and help to understand the local reality. Thus, the first chapter analyzes the reality of Latin American cities and, within them, some Brazilian specificities, marked by chronic urban issues and solutions that are not very assertive. The second chapter presents how capitalist urbanization can be dysfunctional, and even more so for developing cities, producing millions of cubic meters of concrete and steel in expensive projects, poorly balanced between public and private power, and even unnecessary. The third chapter narrows the investigation to the reality of cultural districts located in traditional or historic centers, signaling how the logics of tourism, heritage and creative economy are mixed, often due to gentrification and the real estate economy. The fourth chapter analyzes the HCS from recent history to its contemporary reality, marked by public and private projects such as the Bahia Creative District on Rua Chile, noting the reproduction of the logics presented throughout the thesis and evidencing the incompatibility between practices and discourses of “revitalization” with what would in fact be most important for the HCS. Finally, the thesis brings a series of questions and new reflections relevant to the contemporary role of urbanization in the context of capitalism, showing how the agenda of “good urban practices” obfuscates central problems; how public-private physiologism is based on fragile “assumed truths” and has generated “pseudo-solutions” and; how the idea of the “production of urban artificiality” allowed not only to reconcile, but to go beyond the analysis through the bias of gentrification.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 223818 - MARCIA GENESIA DE SANT ANNA
Interno - 2315629 - JOSE CARLOS HUAPAYA ESPINOZA
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ MANUEL ALMODÓVAR MELENDO
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ MARÍA CABEZA LAINEZ
Externo à Instituição - JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ VERDEJO