P BUT I SHALL BELIEVE THAT NOT P 1997 (original) (raw)

DEL PROYECTO URBANO A LA PRODUCCIÓN DEL ESPACIO: MORFOLOGÍA URBANA DE LA CIUDAD DE PELOTAS, BRASIL (1812-2000

2016

From de urban project to the production of the space: urban morphology of the city of Pelotas, Brazil (1812-2000) The Thesis focus the production of the urban morphology in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. We bring in relation the urban project (the ideal city, thought and projected) and the spatial production (the built actual city). We analize the role of the actors of the urban space production in differents periods of its urban evolution. The periods had been delimited from the process of regional and local economic development. The patterns and characteristics of several plans (improvement and reform, sanitation, urban development) that had been drawn and applied in the city are compared with the theoretical trends and pratices of the urbanism. With these combined variables we intended to elaborate a model to understand the city’s urban development. The Thesis is divided in four parts: (i) the theoretical, methodological and historical bases of the study; (ii) the urban project and the preindustrial urban morphology; (iii) the transition from the urban project to the production of the space and the production of the urban shape in the industrial city and (iv) the industrial city and the sprawl of the urban shape. In the conclusion we have realized an interpretation of the city’s urban development dealing with the urban project, the production of the space, the social players in the production of the urban space and with the cycles of growth and expansion in the city’s building. We finish presenting a model to the production of the urban morphology of the city of Pelotas, Brazil.

A Parable of Misrecognition: Anagnorisis and the Return of the Repressed from the Gulag

2009

In 1930, Grigorii Etkind was arrested at his apartment in Leningrad. Five months later, his twelve-year-old son came home from the school one day and asked a grey-bearded man, who sat on the staircase,“May I pass, please?”“Efim,” said the stranger, who turned out to be his father. Later that night, Grigorii explained to Efim that he had been arrested for not being able to pay the exorbitant anti-NEP taxes with money he did not have. He was tortured with heat, blinding light, and continuous interrogation.