On the Recurrence of Ideas in the Brazil Urban Planning Discussion

Authors

  • Clovis Ultramari
  • Rodrigo José Firmino
  • Séfora F. P. Silva

Keywords:

Planificación urbana, bibliometría, ciudad contemporánea, Brasil

Abstract

Based on bibliometric exercises, this article discusses the national and international scientific
production on the Brazilian contemporary city and its forms of management. Authors discuss the
outstanding recurrence of certain research topics on the debate of urban matters by the Brazilian
academy and the relation between such academic approach and the urban management practice. It
is in fact a discussion on the recurrence of certain topics among Brazilian urban scientific researches
and their appropriation by the practice of urban management by governmental agencies. This is a
discussion on priorities given by Brazilian urban science, approaches adopted, their novelties, their
thematic recurrences, and the way urban management practices react to this set of characteristics.
Timeframe adopted begins in the 1990´s and finalizes in 2007. Source of information used is the
thesis and dissertations data base of the National Council for Scientific and Technological
Development (CAPES). This database now makes available the almost entire post-graduation
production in the country. Discussion is so based on the way Brazilian academy sees the urban
phenomenon we now live in by investigating the possible reasons for thematic choices of research,
priorities given certain by specific scientific areas, the contemporaneousness of these researches
as well as their possible anachronism. Despite the fact that the research prioritizes Brazilian city,
discussion brought here may be contextualized in other urban realities. Main conclusions concern
the observation of a restrict contemporaneousness in a great part of researches, a low adherence
to urban management procedures, and a call for a necessary review of priorities in terms of support
given by scientific agencies to future research projects.

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Published

2013-03-19

How to Cite

Ultramari, C., Firmino, R. J., & Silva, S. F. P. (2013). On the Recurrence of Ideas in the Brazil Urban Planning Discussion. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 45(175), 147–162. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76187

Issue

Vol. XLV, núm. 175 (2013)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2013 Clovis Ultramari, Rodrigo José Firmino, Séfora F. P. Silva

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