Reflexões sobre o papel da cultura no processo de renovação urbana na área central do Rio de Janeiro: um estudo de caso do Centro Cultural banco do Brasil

Abstract

The practice of urban renewal projects as an alternative to intervention in the cities has been establishing new models and urban references in the last decades. The strategic character assumed by most of these projects, the capacity to introduce new centralities, the possibility of acting in the socio-spatial restructuring of the urban fabric, and the establishment of new forms of articulation between the public and private sectors, stand out as the main characteristics that compose the current urban configuration. In this sense, it is the purpose of this paper to analyze the role of culture and its important contribution in the recovery of urban forms inherited from the past still present in the central area of the city of Rio de Janeiro, seeking to investigate empirically how the binomial preservation-modernity is articulated by the culture according to the case study of the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center and its insertion in this context.