Institutions, practices and professional performance. Case studies to the history of planning in Brazil
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2016
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The starting point of this article is the result of the investigations and inquiries carried out by members of a collective entitled Territorial Studies Group and Urban History (GESTHU), registered in the Directory of the CNPq Research Groups and based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Dedicated to the analysis of the role of urban settlements in the structuring of territory from a historical perspective, we seek to understand the nature of the interventions within the social and state agents from records of the action programs both public and private in order to compose a repertoire covering the various entrepreneurships, actors and confrontations. It is an effort aimed at carrying out studies questioning the political and territorial experiences and urbanistic organization of space at various periods in Brazilian history. We believe that many of these practices are territorial planning precursors and we recognize that the imperial and republican projects have common ground when mean the “invention of territories” with the conquest, appropriation and fixation in different regions. The perspective of this article is the analysis of actions taken in different locations in Brazil and the characterization of their materiality. We understand that the complex process of conquest and control of space during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries imposes a discussion of the differentiated importance - within the overall policy implemented by the Brazilian State - of the social determinants of spatial organization including the circulation of ideas, discourses, thoughts and the urban practices, as well as the professionals responsible for planning.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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