Cidades insones: ritmos da vida cotidiana em um futuro próximo

Abstract

What if we extended urban life to nighttime? With this question, geographer Marcos Paulo Ferreira de Góis, author of Insomniac cities: rhythms of everyday life in a near future, presents an interesting question about the future of cities. The book will be released by Editora UFRJ on September 23, at 5:00 pm, with broadcast on the UFRJ Science and Culture Forum channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ForumdeCienciaeCulturadaUFRJ. The publication is now available for free download at www.editora.ufrj.br. Reducing the routine of repetitive and concentrated circuits, reorganizing the logic of locating commercial centers and reviewing the potential and limitations of agglomerations are some of the propositions of Sleepless Cities. In the book, the author makes a study considering cities with another organization of everyday time and space and invites the reader to imagine alternatives and to conceive new possible cities, which do not sleep and expand the urban experience by breaking the border between day and night. Marcos Paulo Ferreira de Góis is a professor of Geography at UFRJ, where for more than ten years he has researched the topic of night life and the economy of cities. In the opening debate, the author will have the participation of Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto, professor of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.