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An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil: Temporality, Diversity and Critical Urban Theory
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This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners' decisions. It argues that such a perspective contributes to current critical urban theory in three ways. First, while many studies of urban planning follow the temporality of the timeframe of a particular project ('project time'), this analysis emphasizes the timeframe of the lives of the affected residents ('people's time'). Second, it attends to diversity, taking account of the variety of affected residents and the diverse consequences of urban planning on their lives. Third, it shows how urban interventions - similar to marriage, divorce, the birth of children and the death of loved ones - are high-impact life events for the urban poor. Finally, the article assesses the engagement between ethnography and critical urban theory and argues in favour of 'grounding' the latter better in the analysis of actual practices and experiences.
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“Although the timeframe of an urban intervention may be officially presented as a linear process toward a certain desirable future, the experienced reality for the residents directly affected by it is often one of a long process of discomfort, uncertainty, and repeated setbacks (Koster 2020) that entirely disrupts the quotidian and contributes to a significant loss of urbanity.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Koster, M.
- Corresponding author
- Koster, Martijn
- ORCID
- Koster, Martijn
- Venue
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-05-06
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 185-199
- ISSN
- 0309-1317 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2427
- PMC
- PMC7074071
- OpenAlex
- W2944238022
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 9.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- H2020 European Research Council (679614)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and sociocultural dynamics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Latin American Urban Studies
- Keywords
- urban planning, slum dwellers, marginalized communities, critical urban theory, temporality, project duration, diversity, urban intervention, life events, urban poor, Recife
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