Os interstícios em meio à reurbanização das áreas contíguas à avenida Faria Lima: uma análise de seus territórios, paisagens e lugares

Abstract

This thesis investigates the interstices amidst the ongoing reurbanization in the mesoregion delimited by the Operação Urbana Consorciada Faria Lima (OUCFL), in São Paulo, based on the analysis of renovated urban portions contiguous to remaining spaces, which acquire, in some cases, the character of place. While the unequal development of capitalism produces the metropolis’s fragmentation, segmentation and segregation - that are often facilitated and energized by urban planning instruments, such as the OUCFL - the places existing in the interstices of the mesoregion reaffirm the experiences of space endowed with meaning. The socio-spatial transformations verified in São Paulo's metropolis tend to de-characterize traditional urban fabrics, their public spaces par excellence and their identities. This reality gains complexity, above all, due to current urban services, supported by the entrepreneurial management of space and its symbolic advantages. The research focuses on these analyzes and the identification and characterization of places, in this peculiar context, conceived by the particularities of streets provided with urban services that encourage the updating of space for collective public use. The main assumption of this work consists of the following: in some interstices of the OUCFL, place and territory coexist, amidst the contradictions imposed by the capitalist production of space - characterized by its fragmentary, segmentary and unequal features - dialogues and pacts with the forces of resistance, around the maintenance of socio-spatial relations based in them. These interstices often symbolize resistance and permanence and allow for unique experiences in relation to the current urban environment. The articulation of the different processes of modification of the territory and its landscapes legitimizes new paradigms, which suggest questions about the relationship between the space and its users, their contexts and scales of influence, and the conflicts they carry in the search for maintaining places of encounter and social exchanges. In this context, this work contributes to thinking about the relationship between the unstoppable urban transformations and the manifestos and representations found in small localities that survive the imposition of the socioeconomic interests of capitalist society.