Where to for Brazil's Cities? Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing?

• Published in: Architectural design Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 20 - 27
• Main Author: Wisnik, Guilherme
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.05.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: 2014 FIFA World Cup; 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games; A Batata Precisa de Você (The Potato Needs You) movement; Affonso Eduardo Reidy; Alexandre Delijaicov; Alexandre Delijaicov, André Takiya and Wanderley Ariza; André Takiya and Wanderley Ariza; archipelago city; Architecture; Aterro do Flamengo (Flamengo Embankment); Belo Hirozonte; Belo Horizonte; Belo Monte hydroelectric dam; Benfica; Brasil Arquitetura; Brasília; Buenos Aires; C class; Ceará e Piauí; Centro Educacionais Unificados (Unified Education Centres); Complexo do Alemão cable car; Confederations Cup; Copacabana beach; Copan Building; Cultural Complex Luz; Estatuto da Cidade; Fernando Haddad; Forged; Forges; Global marketing; Herzog & de Meuron; Jorge Mario Jáuregui/@telier metropolitano; Largo da Batata (Potato Place); Le Corbusier; Luís Inácio Lula da Silva; Marabá; Marcos Cartum; Markets; Mexico City; Minas Gerais; Modernization; Monte Serrat Fortress; Montevideo; Museo do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow); Occupy Estelita (Ocupe Estelita); Occupy Estelita movement; Oscar Niemeyer; Parisópolis; Parque Augusta; Pará; Pedregulho housing complex; Pernambuco; Pilot Plan; Plano Diretor; Porto Maravilha; Praia da Estação; Praia da Estação (Beach at the Station); Praças das Artes; Product innovation; Public spaces; Recife; Rio de Janeiro; Roberto Burle Marx; Salvador; Santiago Calatrava; Suape Port; São Paulo; Trans-Amazonian Highway; Transposition of the São Francisco River; Unidade de Polícia Pacificador (units of police pacification); Xingu River
• ISSN: 0003-8504; 1554-2769
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2042

An awakening interest in public space in Brazilian cities is emphasising the value of existing civic areas. Guilherme Wisnik, a critic, curator and professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, looks at the history and potential future of Brazil's urban spaces. He highlights how despite the introduction of innovative Modernist design in the mid‐20th century, which forged ‘a new relationship between architecture, urbanism and landscape design’, more recently the country's cities have been subject to the vicissitudes of market and political forces.