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The Street Is Ours - Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
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The Street Is Ours - Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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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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