Projecto e património edificado em São Paulo. Três casos como práticas de mudança.
Carolina Miguel dos Santos Barreiros
2013-11-06
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Actor-network theory is one of the social theories that contributed the most to the acknowledgement of Design. Revealing the role played by technical objects in collective life and making clear that, without technology, modern societies would be unmanageable by size and complexity, ANT helped to overcome the misunderstanding that assigned to Design a mere decorative function. As ANT showed, it is through design that the technical components of objects are assembled into a functioning unity. And it is thanks to design that such ‘internal’ assembly mirrors and contributes to the external assembly of collective phenomena. Every time a designer connects separate parts or materials, she is also bounding social actors and groups. Far from being a superficial decoration, design (the art of form) guarantees the organization of modern societies...
Introduction: For more than a century now, states have intervened strongly to alleviate the social and economic consequences of crises in capitalism. New models of regulation, such as Keynesianism, have been invented to deal with capitalist contradictions: to socialize the huge losses booked by banks and large firms, change policy instruments, correct market failures, support regions in decline, transform labor market regulations or create new markets whilst supporting creative destruction. Crises inspire us to think in new ways about periods and varieties of capitalism, about regulation crises and dynamics and about the role, functions and characteristics of the state. At the same time, crises are a great source of tension, pushing political debates to the extreme, sparking waves of protest, and generating political pressures or anti-...
The sustainability and resilience of agrifood systems are generally considered either through the sustainable development paradigm, which focuses on the interactions between agriculture and the environment and often neglects consumption and food issues, or through the relocalisation paradigm, which prevails in the literature on alternative food systems and social movements. Because of its focus on direct producer-consumer relations, the relocalisation perspective suggests a possible transition pathway, but does not fully address the diversity of interdependencies in agrifood systems (food being largely processed, distributed and provided by intermediaries) and therefore fails to effectively reconnect agriculture and food issues. This article shows the need to consider the possible reconnections between agricultural, food and environmen...
In this article, we compare two databases, one providing mobility data (UITP database, 2001), and the other providing population density grid cells at 200m scale for 34 European cities. Looking towards sustainable urban forms, we assess explanatory power of socio-economic and morphological indicators, with respect to seven mobility indicators, including the energy consumption per inhabitant due to transport (base year 2001). We conclude that classical urban indicators (GDP per inhabitant, population density) and more precise morphological indicators (entropy, rank-size slope) are complementary towards such objectives. © CNRS-UMR Géographie-cités.
In this article, we analyze the relationships between urban form, accessibility to transport networks and commuting practices through a scale of functionality intermediate between the traditionally studied local and metropolitan levels. A detailed description is provided for the generic methodology used to construct harmonized mesoscopic zones based on commuting data. These zones are applied for the Paris and Rhine-Ruhr (Germany) regions. Daily commuter mobility (transport modes used, distances traveled, and local portion of trips) is then analyzed for this intermediate scale. We emphasize the necessity for accessibility measures for each level described.
