Abstract

The dissemination of urban renewal processes in Almada is based on discourses that associate urban interventions with a valorization of architecture aesthetics. However, this urban planning model which expects an economic, social and visual regeneration of the city through reinvented spaces is affecting the emergence of discourses and social practices which meet, or even oppose, official narratives. This context of “symbolic conflict”, involving different strategies, discourses and representations on the renewal process was subject to a research on urban narratives.

This seminar aims at sharing these considerations and the challenges within the scope of the CES ongoing post-doctoral research project. The main goal has been to conduct an analysis on how the representations of the actors participating on these urban transformation projects – namely policy makers, architects and city planners – are viewed by the city “doers”.

Biographical note

Roselane Gomes Bezerra holds a PhD. in Sociology by the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. She is conducting her Post-Doctoral research in Sociology at the Centre of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, with a grant from FCT. She is the author, among other publications, of the book “O bairro Praia de Iracema entre o adeus e a boémia: usos e abusos num espaço urbano” (LEO/UFC, 2009).
 

Note: Activity developed within the Research Group on Cities, Cultures, and Architecture (CCArq)