Gilda Collet Bruna and Heliana Comin Vargas
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032818
- eISBN:
- 9780813039275
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032818.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the Brazilian version of the shopping center through two significant examples, the Iguatemi and Pítio Higienòpolis, which were built more than thirty years apart in the city of ...
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This chapter examines the Brazilian version of the shopping center through two significant examples, the Iguatemi and Pítio Higienòpolis, which were built more than thirty years apart in the city of São Paulo. The findings indicate the shopping centers in Brazil stimulate several alterations in their surroundings and generate new centralities in the city environment. The result also indicates that great competition among the shopping centers led to successive transformations and adaptations in order to satisfy different types of consumers and their new demands.Less
This chapter examines the Brazilian version of the shopping center through two significant examples, the Iguatemi and Pítio Higienòpolis, which were built more than thirty years apart in the city of São Paulo. The findings indicate the shopping centers in Brazil stimulate several alterations in their surroundings and generate new centralities in the city environment. The result also indicates that great competition among the shopping centers led to successive transformations and adaptations in order to satisfy different types of consumers and their new demands.
William G. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226901459
- eISBN:
- 9780226901473
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226901473.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces ...
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As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it is difficult to argue for their creation and maintenance: in the face of schools needing resources, roads and sewers needing maintenance, and people suffering at the hands of others, why should cities and counties spend scarce dollars planting trees and preserving parks? This book demonstrates the value of urban green. Focusing specifically on the role of vegetation and trees, the book shows the costs and benefits reaped from urban open spaces, from cooler temperatures to better quality ground water—and why it all matters. While this book is a work of science, it does not ignore the social component. The book looks at low-income areas that have poor vegetation, and shows how enhancing these areas through the planting of community gardens and trees can alleviate social ills.Less
As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it is difficult to argue for their creation and maintenance: in the face of schools needing resources, roads and sewers needing maintenance, and people suffering at the hands of others, why should cities and counties spend scarce dollars planting trees and preserving parks? This book demonstrates the value of urban green. Focusing specifically on the role of vegetation and trees, the book shows the costs and benefits reaped from urban open spaces, from cooler temperatures to better quality ground water—and why it all matters. While this book is a work of science, it does not ignore the social component. The book looks at low-income areas that have poor vegetation, and shows how enhancing these areas through the planting of community gardens and trees can alleviate social ills.
Alex Loftus
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665716
- eISBN:
- 9781452946849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665716.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter seeks to challenge Henri Lefebvre’s conception of nature while extending his understanding of cultural praxis. The project initiated in the previous chapters—to make a case for ...
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This chapter seeks to challenge Henri Lefebvre’s conception of nature while extending his understanding of cultural praxis. The project initiated in the previous chapters—to make a case for metropolitan nature as a differentiated unity woven through sensuous praxis—has clear affinities with Lefebvre’s revolutionary project “to extend the boundaries of praxis into aesthetic experience and aesthetic experience into praxis.” If, however, Lefebvre seeks to extend praxis to the environmental qualities of the city, he does so with an impoverished understanding of what constitutes that environment. This is the signal move that Neil Smith performed and that was taken forward in recent writings on urban technonatures and the cyborg city. It is also perhaps the key distinction between Smith’s understanding of the production of space and Lefebvre’s own. The city is not simply a social construction ripped from its natural hinterland and transformed into a terrain over which worldviews compete and are consolidated. Instead, it is a fundamentally socio-natural entity. Recognizing this fact not only counters some of the antinomian aspects of Lefebvre’s conception of nature, but it opens the possibility for a radical environmental praxis embodied within urban interventions. This provides a richer conception of the moment of revolutionary change.Less
This chapter seeks to challenge Henri Lefebvre’s conception of nature while extending his understanding of cultural praxis. The project initiated in the previous chapters—to make a case for metropolitan nature as a differentiated unity woven through sensuous praxis—has clear affinities with Lefebvre’s revolutionary project “to extend the boundaries of praxis into aesthetic experience and aesthetic experience into praxis.” If, however, Lefebvre seeks to extend praxis to the environmental qualities of the city, he does so with an impoverished understanding of what constitutes that environment. This is the signal move that Neil Smith performed and that was taken forward in recent writings on urban technonatures and the cyborg city. It is also perhaps the key distinction between Smith’s understanding of the production of space and Lefebvre’s own. The city is not simply a social construction ripped from its natural hinterland and transformed into a terrain over which worldviews compete and are consolidated. Instead, it is a fundamentally socio-natural entity. Recognizing this fact not only counters some of the antinomian aspects of Lefebvre’s conception of nature, but it opens the possibility for a radical environmental praxis embodied within urban interventions. This provides a richer conception of the moment of revolutionary change.
