http://hdl.handle.net/11422/80 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:25:53 GMT 2026-07-19T18:25:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29606 Title: Feias cidades: uma reflexão sobre as cidades a partir da feiura Author(s)/Inventor(s): Nienov, Fabio Advisor: Correa, Filipe Souza Abstract: This thesis investigates urban ugliness as a central aesthetic category for understanding the production and experience of the contemporary urban environment. The research stems from a sense of unease regarding the Brazilian built environment: hostile, unpleasant cities devoid of vegetation, whose ugliness is often normalized or silenced. It seeks to understand why modernity has resulted in spaces marked by a functionalist and unpleasant logic, and by the erasure of nature and collective memories. Methodologically, the research adopts the format of the academic essay and the concept of the “enigma-city,” inspired by Walter Benjamin, which proposes analyzing the city through the dismantling and reassembly of urban fragments, intervals, and thresholds, to narrate what is not apparent. The investigation is structured in three parts. The first part explores the concept of ugliness itself, revisiting its etymology, its inherent characteristics, and its social history, from antiquity to the present day. Broadly speaking, ugliness is defined as a real property of the object, not an absence of beauty, and should be divided into inherent ugliness, capable of eliciting reactions of revulsion and discomfort, and relative ugliness, based on comparisons of the observer’s taste. The second part focuses on the relationship between the city and ugliness from four perspectives. The historical perspective analyzes London during the Industrial Revolution as the first Western metropolis to face large-scale urban disfigurement, based on literary accounts from the time. The collective memory perspective examines the traumatic renovations of Praça da Sé in São Paulo as cases in which judgments of obsolescence and ugliness served as a pretext for the erasure of entire historical layers of the city. The “urban landscape” perspective investigates the imprecise use of this term, suggesting that its origin derives from the British concept of “townscape,” which emerged precisely as a response to the blighting of modern cities; that is, the notion of “urban landscape” is not neutral, but emerges from aesthetic discomfort in the face of a degraded built environment, further discussing how its translation into Portuguese may have obscured this origin linked to ugliness. Finally, the philosophical perspective draws on the concepts of “environment” and “atmosphere” to describe extreme situations in which the built environment becomes toxic to the human experience. It is a form of ugliness that cannot be reduced to a matter of taste; it has a pure physical, sensory, and psychological impact on its inhabitants. The third part focuses on the photographic representation of urban ugliness. Beginning with the emergence in the 1970s of a photographic movement interested in the ordinary built environment, associated with the Düsseldorf School and the New Topographics exhibition, the thesis analyzes the Atlas fotógrafico da cidade de São Paulo e arredores, by photographer Tuca Vieira. The Atlas is interpreted not as an objective document of the city, but as a real-fictional narrative marked by the photographer’s subjectivity. The images are analyzed according to six categories of ugliness: monstrosity, humor, immorality, the relationship between old and new, otherness, and “inverdecer” (de-greening), a neologism proposed to designate the absence of vegetation in the urban environment, characterizing it as a form of ugliness that assaults the senses and mental health. It can be concluded that tackling urban ugliness requires the greening of cities in a fair and equitable manner, promoting the revival of aesthetic sensibility and memory as structural conditions for collective life. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29606 2026-05-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29600 Title: SUB.URB.BIO: a memória dos moradores como construção territorial e das territorialidades da comunidade da Vila das Torres em Madureira - Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Araújo, Ana Cristina dos Santos Advisor: Santos, Renato Emerson Nascimento dos Abstract: This thesis seeks to present, analyze, construct, and discursively reconstruct the territorialities of Vila das Torres, through the social relations established in this community, and to demonstrate that these territorialities have constructed a sense of identity that remains in the subjectivity of the interviewed residents, causing them to carry the territory of the village to the places of their reterritorialization. This village originated from the vegetable gardens developed under the Light transmission towers and between the Light land and the tracks of the Central do Brasil railway line, in Madureira, a suburb of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This village was part of the process of removing favelas for the realization of mega sporting events in Rio and Brazil, namely, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Furthermore, this study aims to question the situation of the residents of this community after the removal, as remnants of a forced displacement imposed by the State in the pursuit of Rio de Janeiro's image as a "Wonderful and Democratic City," focusing on the process of territorialization, (de)territorialization, and (re)territorialization of its residents. | analyze and problematize the discourse surrounding the creation of Madureira Park in the local/national/independent press and through the voices of its residents. | establish the "non-monetizable" losses that the community suffered with the removal and make visible the history of the community supplanted by the Madureira Park project, which exerts a process of whitening the territory within a policy of "revitalization" of the territory. For this purpose, | use Oral History and Memory as methods of constructing the territoriality of this community, as well as discourse analysis and bibliographic research to reconstruct the motivators for the removal and the struggles of the residents, among other techniques that will be better developed in the part of this work focused on methodology. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29600 2025-12-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29480 Title: Territórios da soja e as desigualdades regionais no Matopiba Author(s)/Inventor(s): Melo, Juliana Aguiar de Advisor: Oliveira, Hipólita Siqueira de Abstract: Esta tesis tiene como objetivo analizar las desigualdades económicas en los municipios de la región de Matopiba, especializada en la producción de commodities agrícolas, y comprender cómo estas desigualdades se relacionan con la estructura productiva regional. Para alcanzar este objetivo, la investigación realizó una revisión teórica sobre las relaciones entre desigualdad, crecimiento y desarrollo, destacando fuerzas y factores determinantes para trayectorias que favorezcan una mayor igualdad y desarrollo sostenible. Para ello, se desarrolló una síntesis teórica sobre desarrollo regional y desigualdades en Brasil, con enfoque en regiones especializadas en la producción de commodities, como Matopiba. Metodológicamente, la tesis utilizó el Análisis Exploratorio de Datos Espaciales (AEDE) para identificar patrones de localización de las actividades económicas, así como autocorrelaciones espaciales de indicadores de desigualdad para los años 2000, 2010 y 2020. Se analizaron datos como el PIB per cápita, el Valor Agregado Bruto (VAB), los índices de Gini y Palma, además de información sobre el Programa Bolsa Familia y declaraciones de impuesto sobre la renta. Los resultados señalaron la fuerte especialización productiva de Matopiba en el sector agrícola, especialmente en la soja, lo que contribuye a la concentración de ingresos y riqueza en pocos municipios y refuerza las desigualdades regionales. La estructura productiva orientada a la exportación se mostró desarticulada de las cadenas locales, limitando los efectos multiplicadores del crecimiento económico. El análisis espacial reveló patrones de concentración de desigualdades, con "bolsones" de alta desigualdad en áreas de mayor dinamismo económico. En términos teóricos, los hallazgos cuestionan la validez del modelo de convergencia previsto por la curva de Kuznets, corroborando perspectivas críticas, como las de Piketty, sobre la persistencia de la desigualdad en economías capitalistas desreguladas. Se concluye que el modelo de desarrollo basado en la exportación de commodities agrava las desigualdades socioeconómicas regionales y que políticas más robustas de diversificación económica, fortalecimiento de cadenas productivas locales y planificación regional integrada son esenciales para promover un crecimiento más inclusivo en Matopiba. Estos resultados contribuyen a los debates sobre desarrollo regional, ofreciendo una base empírica y teórica para repensar estrategias dirigidas a la reducción de las desigualdades en regiones periféricas y especializadas. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29480 2024-12-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29401 Title: De mito romântico à paisagem cultural : por uma trajetória do conceito de paisagem na Revista do Patrimônio (1937-2019) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Vidal, Rafael Teixeira Advisor: Fridman, Fania Abstract: This research investigates the concept of landscape in Revista do Patrimônio, a scientific journal published by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN). It begins with an analysis of primary documentation consisting of discourses, images, concepts, and representations of landscape taken from the journal, which has been published by IPHAN since 1937. The reading of the 40 editions of the journal constitutes the central documentary source of the research; this was then cross-referenced with social and political data from each historical context, as well as interviews and data on the authors who published in the journal. The main objective of the research was to construct a trajectory of the concepts and notions of landscape that circulated in the magazine, based on the hypothesis that there were different discursive topics composing the process of landscape construction in the authors of the IPHAN Magazine, beyond the decree of landscape listings operationalized by the institution. Contrary to a supposedly univocal, official narrative based on the beauty and vision of the landscape, as presented by the institution through its documentation, different notions, discourses, and visions of the landscapes mobilized in the articles are evident in three main discursive regimes that intersect in non-linear temporalities: the first is linked to the permanence of founding discourses and romantic and nationalist ideas that run through the entire history of the magazine; the second highlights the monumental topic for the urban and modern landscape; and the third involves the emergence of new globalized discourses on landscape as a means of development and raising awareness of global ecological emergencies. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29401 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z