Urban sustainability in the Amazon: a category in search of its meaning
Urban sustainability has been a recurrent theme in international forums. It is frequently addressed by consensus that proposes recipes for sustainable cities and defines global strategies to face the instabilities and uncertainties arising from the dynamics of contemporary urbanization. The legitima...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2021
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/15931 |
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| Summary: | Urban sustainability has been a recurrent theme in international forums. It is frequently addressed by consensus that proposes recipes for sustainable cities and defines global strategies to face the instabilities and uncertainties arising from the dynamics of contemporary urbanization. The legitimate global effort for a more just and responsible social and environmental development is recognized. However, generalizations result in a gradual process of historical erasure of the multiple forms of (re)existing. This is especially true in a region like the Amazon, where urbanization is historically made invisible and placed apart from development agendas. Thus, this work proposes a systematic analysis of concepts, ideas, and debates that define contemporary urban sustainability. Based on structuring literature, the aim is to support the creative process of a definition adjusted to the reality of an urbanization process that is born in a tropical forest region, economically targeted, and sociopolitically ignored. We start from the premise that urban sustainability and its praxis must be compatible with the social, historical, spatial, and temporal context. Thus, the concept is defined as a system of four dimensions : (i) science and technology, (ii) urban management, (iii) socio-environmental awareness, and (iv) urban life and nature. This last dimension is the integrating link that repositions the other dimensions in the context of the urban Amazon. |
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| ISSN: | 2595-315X |
