http://hdl.handle.net/11422/75 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:40:01 GMT 2026-07-21T06:40:01Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29746 Title: Do Chá à Soja: processo de urbanização na China sob um olhar brasileiro Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silva, Gabriela Ribeiro Lourenço Advisor: Ribeiro, Cláudio Rezende Abstract: This study investigates contemporary Chinese urbanization from a historicalcritical and comparative perspective, articulating theoretical contributions from Chinese and Brazilian thought. It is grounded in the premise that categories traditionally mobilized to explain urbanization—such as rural and urban, countryside and city, advanced and backward—should not be understood as fixed oppositions, but rather as contradictory expressions of a single historical process. From this interpretive standpoint, both the Brazilian experience of urbanization dissociated from industrialization and the Chinese trajectory of industrialization pursued without full urban expansion are understood as specific forms of socio-spatial organization, each marked by distinct patterns of inequality. The analysis integrates theoretical reflection, allegorical reading, and empirical investigation, enabling an understanding of Chinese urbanization as a process characterized by the coexistence of heterogeneous temporalities, spatialities, and social forms. These formulations are articulated with classical categories developed in Brazilian interpretations of peripheral urbanization, particularly those proposed by Milton Santos (1993) and Francisco de Oliveira (1982; 2003). The comparison reveals that, although Brazil and China did not follow the historical trajectories of the Global North, their development paths display distinct combinations of state action, territory, and labor. In the Chinese case, public policies such as the household registration system (Hukou), the Third Front strategy (三線建設), the Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the regionalization guidelines of the National New-Type Urbanization Plan (NNUP), and state control over land emerge as central instruments for regulating population mobility, territorial use, and the reproduction of labor power. These mechanisms enabled rapid industrial accumulation while simultaneously producing asymmetries between urban and rural areas. The lived dimension of these contradictions is examined through the analysis of four Chinese cinematic works—Shower (1999), Dead Pigs (2018), Last Train Home (2009), and Whose Utopia (2006)—treated as analytical devices rather than mere illustrations. Across different scales, the films reveal the impacts of accelerated urbanization on migrant labor, family ties, land commodification, and the reorganization of social time, highlighting the porous boundaries between urban and rural spaces and challenging interpretations based on fixed notions of marginality. This theoretical and allegorical reading is further deepened by an empirical analysis of the space–time distribution of economic and demographic variables in Brazil and China, demonstrating that urbanization cannot be understood as a simple outcome of economic growth. The findings indicate that Chinese urbanization, like its Brazilian counterpart, should be understood as a contradictory, historically situated, and territorially produced process, in which different ways of life, labor regimes, and uses of space coexist unevenly. By integrating theoretical reflection, symbolic analysis, and empirical investigation, the study reinforces the need for non-universalizing approaches to urbanization in the Global South—approaches capable of articulating public policies, political economy, and the production of space, while recognizing contradiction as a constitutive element of concrete reality. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29746 2026-03-04T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29510 Title: O alastramento das igrejas evangélicas na paisagem urbana do Rio de Janeiro: uma análise comparativa dos bairros Campo Grande e Barra da Tijuca Author(s)/Inventor(s): Moreira, João Paulo Noronha Advisor: Albernaz, Maria Paula Gonçalves Lysandro de Abstract: This study investigates the territorial spread of Evangelical churches within the urban fabric of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, visible in the city's landscape, using the neighborhoods of Campo Grande and Barra da Tijuca as spatial samples. It explores a possible relationship between the quality of the urban environment and the neighborhoods' socioeconomic indicators with the quantity of religious spaces found within them. The issue is related to the vertiginous and isolated growth of the Evangelical religion at a national level, especially since the 1970s, notably in areas with low levels of social development and investment in urban infrastructure. Thus, examining the urban realities that encouraged or inhibited such spreading is justified. For the field of Urbanism, the analysis contributes to fostering the perception of Evangelical expansion through the lens of the built landscape in the urban environment, much as has been done with Catholic churches when studying the historical effects of their domination and influence on the formation of cities. The choice of Rio de Janeiro is based on the high concentration of Evangelical establishments and followers in the city, which was also the birthplace of denominations that are, today, among the largest in the country. The objective is to understand the distribution and setting of Evangelical spaces in the city's fabric and landscape, utilizing the two aforementioned neighborhoods which, for comparative purposes, were selected as a sample space due to their historical, socioeconomic, and quantity of religious spaces contrasts, despite being close and belonging to an area of the city once considered part of the same geographical division. Methodologically, the analysis began with mappings conducted at the municipal scale, using data from the 2022 Census, in order to understand the spatial distribution of religious addresses and other uses. Based on the axes of concentration and deconcentration of the mapped establishments, the neighborhoods for the analytical framework were determined. Supporting the contextualization of the phenomenon, in addition to a literature review and theoretical framework, surveys and syntheses of data regarding religious populations at the national and municipal levels were conducted, along with historical overviews of the neighborhoods and an analysis of their urban contexts, highlighting their main urban facilities and socioeconomic indicators, to finally arrive at the analysis of the churches within their landscapes. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29510 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29389 Title: As disputas da preservação: a morfologia de fronteiras e processos limiares em áreas de operação urbana no Centro do Rio de Janeiro Author(s)/Inventor(s): Pimentel, Letícia von Krüger Advisor: Vilas Boas, Naylor Barbosa Abstract: The thesis discusses the morphology resulting from the interaction between preservation action and city planning in urban operation areas, seeking to identify the contributions of urban management of cultural heritage in the fragmentation or integration of urban fabrics in areas of morphological ruptures in the Center of Rio de Janeiro, with a special focus on the Esplanada do Castelo. From the point of view of the theoretical-methodological framework perspective, in order to morphologically characterize the rupture areas, the thesis incorporates the metaphor of the notions of border and threshold introduced by Walter Benjamin in association with the concepts and categories of analysis formulated by authors in the field of urban morphology, primarily , those from the English School, Michael Conzen, Karl Kropf and Jeremy Whitehand. The analysis is applied in two complementary procedural dimensions, both aiming to translate the language of urban forms into the categories proposed on the scale of the Conzenian urban plan. The first aims to understand the process of formation of the area of the city where the analysis is established in the two moments before and after rupture in time/space: the demolition of Morro do Castelo. This analysis is developed through consultation of primary cartographic and iconographic documents and widely disseminated bibliography, as well from experiencing the location. The second scale of analysis concerns the understanding of another sectoral process established in the study area, intercepting the previously characterized macro formation process: the action of preservation on urban space. The analysis of this dimension is carried out by understanding the motivations that supported the decision-making actions of the agents of the federal heritage body, in light of the studies undertaken by Whitehand, and by translating the forms resulting from these decisions into the urban form of the area. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29389 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29381 Title: Megaeventos e a construção da imagem da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: diálogos entre 1922 e 2016 Author(s)/Inventor(s): Góes, Matheus Gonçalves Advisor: Fagerlande, Sergio Moraes Rego Abstract: The first decades of the twenty-first century have revealed a close relationship between the city of Rio de Janeiro and major international events. However, when looking at earlier historical periods, it becomes evident that this connection is not exclusive to contemporary times, having also manifested itself on previous occasions. This dissertation investigates the relationship between the hosting of international mega-events and the process of constructing the city’s image of Rio de Janeiro. To this end, it examines two distinct episodes: the International Exhibition of the Centennial of Brazil’s Independence in 1922 and the 2016 Olympic Games, analyzed individually and subsequently in an articulated manner. The development of the research begins with an approach to the notions developed around mega-events and the image of the city. It then investigates the conception, implementation, and spatial and symbolic repercussions of these episodes in Rio de Janeiro. The cross-reading of two events separated by their political, social, and urban contexts constituted a methodological choice aimed at understanding the recurrence of strategies that, through these urban spectacles, channeled narratives and interests characteristic of their respective periods, enhancing specific forms of visibility and promoting updates to the city. In doing so, the study seeks to explore the capacity of these phenomena to play an active role in the construction of Rio de Janeiro’s image. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29381 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z