The scavenger's traces: memory, social vulnerability and the city in the homeless experience of Bras district in São Paulo

This article discusses how the individual and collective urban memory is destroyed/rebuild, studying the experience of a neighborhood characterized by deep architectonic and urban changes and by social and economic vulnerability. We will focus some homeless memories in the Brás district, in São Paul...

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Main Author: Pereira, Verônica Sales
Format: Online
Language:por
Published: Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo 2007
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/risco/article/view/44713
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Summary:This article discusses how the individual and collective urban memory is destroyed/rebuild, studying the experience of a neighborhood characterized by deep architectonic and urban changes and by social and economic vulnerability. We will focus some homeless memories in the Brás district, in São Paulo city. Three images by W. Benjamin will be developed: the trace, the scavenger and porosity. They don't show us the lack of a memory, but the "traces" that give a meaning to exile, to the nomad experience and build a fragile sense of place.