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The Street Is Ours

Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvShawn William Miller,Utah) Miller, Shawn William (Brigham Young University

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The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. Once viewed as a natural resource and a place of equitable access, deep meaning, and diverse functions, the street has changed into a space of exclusion that prioritizes automotive movement. Taking an environmental approach, Shawn William Miller surveys the costs and failures of this spatial transformation and demonstrates how Rio's citizens have resisted the automobile's intrusions and, in some cases, even reversed the long trend of closing the street against its potential utilities.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-19
Mått153 x 230 x 23 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Latin American Studies
Antal sidor366
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108447119

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Introduction: a common space to enjoy – Paquetá Island; 1. Systems circulatory before the wheel – Ouvidor Street; 2. The street's apotheosis – Central Avenue; 3. Putting the car in carnival – Rio Branco Avenue; 4. A blunt instrument – Misericórdia Square; 5. Automotive law and the promises of safety – Assembly Street; 6. Buyers and regrets – Praça Onze (Square Eleven); 7. Automotive flow vs. automotive storage – Castelo Hill; Conclusion: revolutions at the end of the street – Brasilia.

'With touches of the finest conventions of writing about Brazilian cities and their denizens, this is a study of the streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro as experienced by people, animals, and machines. Alongside his history of street paving and street beautification, Miller describes the 'invention' of pedestrian and motorist. Attentive to the entwined histories of danger and thrill in the Marvelous City, The Street is Ours is a fascinating examination of the most commonplace of all urban settings - the street - as a contested, lively public good often turned over to, but never fully dominated by, the private needs of the automobile.' Daryle Williams, co-editor of The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics