Shawn William Miller

Street Is Ours (eBook, ePUB)

Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. Once viewed as a natural resource and a place of equitable access, deep meaning, and diverse functions, the street has changed into a space of exclusion that prioritizes automotive movement. Taking an environmental approach, Shawn William Miller surveys the costs and failures of this spatial transformation and demonstrates how Rio's citizens have resisted the automobile's intrusions and, in some cases, even reversed the long trend of closing the street against its potential utilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108693165
• Artikelnr.: 54096761

Autorenporträt

Shawn William Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University. He is an environmental historian and the author of An Environmental History of Latin America (Cambridge, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a common space to enjoy
Paquetá Island; 1. Systems circulatory before the wheel
Ouvidor Street; 2. The street's apotheosis
Central Avenue; 3. Putting the car in carnival
Rio Branco Avenue; 4. A blunt instrument
Misericórdia Square; 5. Automotive law and the promises of safety
Assembly Street; 6. Buyers and regrets
Praça Onze (Square Eleven); 7. Automotive flow vs. automotive storage
Castelo Hill; Conclusion: revolutions at the end of the street
Brasilia.