Tuesday, November 8, 2022
17:00-18:30 IL time
Rio de Janeiro
Vinicius M. Netto
The many facets of segregation: Rio de Janeiro
Rio is a peculiar city: visually stunning, culturally vibrating, and socially challenging. The city displays some of the most complicated socio-spatial scenarios one could conceive of: residential segregation structured by class and race in extensive areas and peripheries; micro-segregation pockets of rich and poor people living close to each other; and vertical segregation up hills and iconic landscapes close to the sea on the one hand; and high-frequency forms of segregation in daily trajectories along with opportunities for contact between different social groups in its beaches and streets on the other. Rio “has it all”. With nearly 7 million people in a metropolitan constellation with over 12 million, the city can offer a full picture of what collective life is like in a radically unequal society. This talk will delve into such a diverse social, spatial and temporal mosaic — which will inspire us to propose a taxonomy of the multiple forms of segregation.
Vinicius M. Netto
Vinicius M. Netto is Principal Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, University of Porto, Portugal (CITTA | FEUP), and Associate Professor and Former Director of the Graduate Programme in Architecture and Urbanism, Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Advanced Architectural Studies (The Bartlett, UCL) and was a Visiting scholar at the Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University (CUSP NYU, 2019-2020).
He is the author of The Social Fabric of Cities (Routledge, 2017) and over 100 articles and chapters. He has authored and co-edited four books in Brazil: Cidade & Sociedade (City & Society, 2014), Urbanidades (Urbanities, 2012), Efeitos da Arquitetura (The Effects of Architecture, 2017) and A Cidade e suas Dimensões de Pesquisa (The City and its Research Dimensions, 2021). He is an Editor for Area Development and Policy (ADP), a journal of the Regional Studies Association (RSA, UK), a former Editor-in-Chief for Revista de Morfologia Urbana (RMU, Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology | PNUM), and a member of the Editorial Board of journals such as the International Journal of Urban Informatics. His work focuses on cities as networks of information, cooperation and segregation.