Brazil’s National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Urban and Regional Planning (ANPUR), in partnership with the Urban Studies Foundation (USF), is pleased to announce the launch of a new book publication. ANPUR 40 years: new times, new challenges in a diverse Brazil is edited by José Júlio Ferreira Lima and Raul da Silva Ventura Neto, the president and executive secretary of ANPUR. The publication celebrates the Association’s four decades and reflects on the contemporary challenges of urban and regional planning in Brazil.
As a result of the conference held in May 2023 in Belém, Brazil, the book brings together 14 chapters selected from the 778 works presented at the event. Each chapter corresponds to the best article from its respective session, chosen by the scientific committees. The publication is organized into five major thematic groups, which reflect the evolution of discussions in the field of urban and regional planning over the last few decades.
According to José Júlio Ferreira Lima, president of the Association, “the book and the partnership with the Urban Studies Foundation is an important step for ANPUR towards a prominent role in the challenges of the Global South within the international scientific community.”
The book’s first set of chapters deals with urban and regional spaces, public policies, city networks and the metropolitan issue in Brazil. The second group focuses on themes related to housing, the environment and the right to the city, including emerging issues such as history, cultural identity and social movements. The third segment addresses the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on cities and regions, while the fourth group examines new interpretations of urban and regional issues, with an emphasis on gender, ethnicity, resilience and territorial identity. Finally, the fifth group highlights the Amazonian context, bringing studies on changes in land use and socio-environmental conflicts in the region.
The book’s production and publication resulted from a partnership with the Urban Studies Foundation, to whom ANPUR thanks for all its support, especially Joe Shaw and Jeroen Klink. The work is now available for free download on the USF and ANPUR websites, allowing the wide circulation of the knowledge produced.
The launch events will feature debates with chapter authors.
For the launch of the book ANPUR 40 years: new times, new challenges in a diverse Brazil, three online meetings will be broadcasted live on the ANPUR YouTube channel. The meetings will be on Fridays, at 9 am (Brasília time).
Launch schedule:
- April 4th, at 9am | Launch of the book, with the participation of the editors and representatives from USF.
- April 11th, at 9am | Presentation of chapters:
- Commuting movements in metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro in 2000 and 2010. A social stratification analysis – Ulisses Carlos Silva Ferreira
- Risk, disaster and production of space in Doce River basin. Considerations based on the collapse of a tailings dam – Fernanda Pinheiro da Silva
- Urbanization in Pernambuco in the first half of the 19th century. Political-administrative, judicial and ecclesiastical networks – Tiago Cargnin Gonçalves
- April 18th, at 9am | Presentation of chapters:
- Humanized landscape. Reference models for (post)pandemic city management – Victor Augusto Bosquilia Abade
- Black skin, white fear. About interdictions and the metropolitan non-being – Felipe Taumaturgo Rodrigues de Azevedo
- Conflicts in the public management of “virtual land”. Is the additional building potential a public good transferable to private property? – Thaís Fernanda Lopes