Territories and borders in the informal occupation of the urban space (original) (raw)
Emerging from the need to gain their own space on the modern city, the “favelas” appear as an informal solution for the low-income-families housing in almost every large Brazilian city. They established themselves as such a definitive and integrated phenomenon in the urban scenario that nowadays it is not possible to think about distinctive spatial boundaries between the “favela” and the “city”. Nevertheless, if, on the one hand, the “favelas” cannot be treated as marginalized spaces, on the other hand, they have not become completely integrated spaces to the urban structure. There is a wide range of possibilities ranging from the diversity of the phenomenon to the fading away of the limits that clearly defines the “slum condition”. This work aims to discuss the existence and the effect of the physical and the symbolical borders in building the informal urban space and their mutual influence. In order to this we assumed that the contact possibilities and proximity could be organized in several dimensions, including the physical range, the visual contact and the social and the symbolic relationship. Each one seems to produce different results in the production of the urban space.
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