Advisor: Otavio Leonidio
Dissertation: City without ratchets: thinking the city of free circulation
Defense date: 04/04/2016
Abstract
Fixed and flows. The big city is a huge fixed, crossed by huge flows. What happens
when the order of these fixed and flows is subverted? What is the spatiality of a city in
which the occupations of its territory, as well as its circulation, are not established by the
logics of functionality and imperatives of movement of value? On June, 2013, around 388
Brazilian cities were the theater of riots in which the main focus were the public
transportations tariff raise. However, the claims have overcome the revocation of such
raises. The claims were also for rights to the city, free circulation and access to whatever
the city may offer. “Movimento Passe Livre – MPL”, the main perpetrator of the riots,
which were also called “Jornadas de Junho” puts the urban question of mobility and also
the space competition at the Country’s political agenda. MPL approaches the city, its
occupation and circulation. An inclusive circulation, that allows the unveiling, usage and
appropriation of the city. An urban idealized view, subverting the logics of occupation in
such an utopia that does not belong to urbanism or architecture. The main objective of this
work is to interpose different city concepts aiming to define the city envisaged by MPL.