Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil

by Ana Paula Koury and Fernando Lara

Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequality. This inequality is physically manifested across Brazil, most visibly in its sprawling urban favelas. The authors propose an understanding of the social and spatial dynamics at play that is based on property,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947137
• ISBN13: 9780822947134
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"