This chapter discusses a widespread but underexplored phenomenon in Brazilian cities: the growing presence of walls and other security infrastructures in low-income, peripheral neighborhoods. This practice can often take the form of bounded and internally regulated regimes of residential organization at a hyper-local scale, associated with the emic term condomínio (condominium). The authors propose the concept of “walling” to theorize the practices of socio-material assembly through which peripheral condominiums emerge, driven by the efforts of urban subjects to reconstruct a sense of well-being within environments experienced as precarious and insecure. While walling can significantly reshape socio-spatial relationships and everyday flows of bodies, the authors argue that broader social conditions and relationships in peripheries tend to promote forms of spatial and temporal porosity that weaken or even undermine these regimes of self-segregation. The chapter explores varying dynamics of peripheral condominiums through the presentation of contrasting case studies from three different Brazilian cities: a recently completed Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House My Life) public housing project in Porto Alegre; a partially walled and symbolically partitioned favela in Rio de Janeiro; and an occupied and subsequently formalized public housing project in São Paulo.
LSE, London School of Economics, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0002-1563-3615
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Titolo del capitolo
Walling the peripheries: porous condominiums at Brazil’s urban margins
Autori
Matthew Richmond, Moisés Kopper
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-661-2.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Embodying Peripheries
Curatori
Giuseppina Forte, Kuan Hwa
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Numero di pagine
304
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-661-2
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-660-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-661-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-662-9
Collana
Ricerche. Architettura, Pianificazione, Paesaggio, Design
ISSN della collana
2975-0342
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0350