Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Palimpseste urbain'

Proposer une relecture du sensible par le palimpseste est s'intéresser avant tout au temps de l'expérience. Il s'agit d'appréhender ce dernier en tant que matière dans la conception de la ville. Étant définie comme une stratification temporelle par la superposition des couches d'écriture, l'introduction de la métaphore palimpseste dans une réflexion sur les ambiances ajoute une épaisseur temporelle aux phénomènes sensibles. La figure «ambiance-palimpseste» montre comment la quotidienneté de l'expérience sensible s'inscrit dans une durée. Cette vision redéfinit l'ambiance comme une incarnation du passé dans le présent à travers un processus continu de sédimentation des traces. Le couplage «ambiance-palimpseste » incarne une puissance du temps dans laquelle le passé se recompose différemment avec la superposition de chaque présent. Entre la production des villes mémorielles et - ou - des villes artefacts, la pensée urbaine contemporaine marque une crise par rapport au temps où le présent fonctionnait comme une étanchéité temporelle, voire un tampon temporel entre le passé et le futur. Le terme « ambiance-palimpseste» resitue le présent dans son emplacement - l'entre-deux -, comme un interface à travers lequel les liens entre le futur et le passé sont rétablis. L'étude du sensible en épaisseur offre une nouvelle perspective dans la conception des villes et propose une autre approche temporelle où il s'agit de « faire avec » le temps, celui du passé et celui du futur. Elle propose une recompositions des valeurs sensibles du passé tout en se projetant vers le futur. Elle mêle la rétrospectivité et la prospectivité dans une approche qui vise à penser et à concevoir l'avenir de la ville autrement. Avec un tel objectif, cette thèse propose un dispositif de lecture du sensible en épaisseur, « la coupe temporelle », comme moyen de considérer l'expérience dans le temps et de déplier les couches des mémoires sédimentées. La coupe temporelle donne à lire les reliefs temporels de l'expérience. Elle marque un tournant dans la représentation de la ville, allant de la cartographie vers la stratigraphie<br>Proposing a rereading of the sensory experience by the term palimpsest is above all focusing on « time ».This approach introduces time as a main material for designing cities. Being defined as a stratification of time by a continual re-writing, the metaphorical coupling of terms « ambiance-palimpsest » adds a temporal depth to the sensory phenomena. It point out how everyday life experience reflects a maintain over time. This vision redefines the ambience as an incarnation of the past in the present through a continuous process of sedimentation of traces. Ambience-palimpsest embodies a power of time in which the past is reconstructed differently with each time a new present is overlaid upon territory. Between the production of memorial cities and artifacts ones, the current contemporary urban thinking marks a crisis in dealing with time, in which the present functions as a buffer, isolating the past from the futur. The introduction of term palimpsest in the field of ambiences relocates the present as a connecting interface between the two temporal entities. Taking into consideration the temporal depth when analyzing the sensory experience, offers a new perspective of designing cities by recomposing the past sensory values in a projection to the future. It mixes a retrospective and prospective approaches for rethinking the future of cities. In such an interest, this thesis proposes an architectural reading tool « the temporal section » as a way to stroll in time and to unfold the layers of sediment memories. This architectural section, to which we add time as vertical dimension of place, helps reading the temporal configuration of the experience, thus marking a turning point in the representation of cities form cartography to stratigraphy

O palimpsesto como metáfora aplicada à arquitetura tem como interpretação mais óbvia a leitura da intervenção sobre um edifício que, por qualquer vicissitude, deixou deter uso: os retrofits. No território, esta metáfora é mais complexa, permitindo avaliações das intervenções no tecido existente, como edificações, políticas públicas e outros fenômenos urbanos. Tendo esta entidade física e mental como conceito avaliaram-se dois modos privados de produção de habitação no Centro de São Paulo, assim como as políticas públicas que os impactam.<br>The palimpsest as a metaphor applied to architecture has the most obvious interpretation of the intervention in a building that, for any vicissitude, no longer has use: retrofits. In the territory, this metaphor is more complex, allowing evaluations of interventions in the existing fabric, such as buildings, public policies and other urban phenomena. Having this physical and mental entity as concept, two private modes of housing production were evaluated in the Center of São Paulo, as well as the public policies that impact them.

De nombreux édicules appelés Animitas, souvent modestes mais parfois monumentaux, se remarquent au Chili, dans les villes et le long des routes, souvent en position incongrue eu égard aux logiques rationalistes qui prévalent désormais dans la gestion des territoires. Ils commémorent des décès tragiques, naturels ou violents, intervenus sur l'espace public. Élevés sans autorisation, dépourvus de statut laïc ou religieux, ils n'en tiennent pas moins un rôle majeur dans la perception et les pratiques populaires de l'espace, qu'ils viennent sacraliser sous diverses formes, sans contrarier la vie quotidienne. Les rares tentatives pour les détruire ou les déplacer ont échoué ou se sont avérées d'authentiques traumatismes, tant les Animitas contribuent à l'appropriation des lieux et à l'instauration d'une relation avec l'invisible recherchée par une grande partie de la population. Dès lors, on est fondé à s'interroger sur la manière dont l'urbanisme peut traiter un tel phénomène. Peut-il intégrer ces édicules imprévus et les pratiques afférentes, en tirer des servitudes ou des directives ? Peut-il, dans un état laïc et dans un droit fondé sur la raison, contrevenir à la fonctionnalité pour instaurer une approche socio-spirituelle ? La recherche a d'abord consisté à inventorier largement les Animitas du Chili, puis à s'attarder spécialement sur celles de Valparaiso, qui ont fait l'objet d'un recensement exhaustif. Ce matériau a permis de construire des typologies qui ont été confrontées au contenu d'entretiens réalisés auprès de constructeurs d'Animitas et de pratiquants. Ce qui a conduit à préciser les conditions de leur édification, de leur élévation à certains statuts et de leur évolution. Cette partie du travail a mis en évidence le recyclage de certaines croyances et pratiques pré-hispaniques ; elle a également permis d'esquisser des catégories d'où ont été tirées quelques hypothèses sur la stabilité du phénomène et la nécessité de le prendre en considération dans la gestion des villes contemporaines et du territoire chiliens.

It is in man's nature to want to know his place within his environment. This inherent need manifests itself in many ways, often unique to the cultures and societies that husband them. The primacy of man's need for a sense of his place in the world is evident in the collective mythologies that surround every culture's history of its people's origins and of their understanding of the world and their place in it, between earth and sky. This sense of one's groundedness, of one's place, is essential and more than simply a matter of orientation or territoriality, although both these needs are very real. The roots we plant in the soil provide an anchor and give us our bearing. One's connection to the environment is intrinsic to the knowledge of who one is and where, both as an individual and as a part of a larger collective. Our associations with larger contexts, be they physical, social, political, or spiritual, are moorings against the uncertainties of our world. They define our lives and our relationships with one another. It is within this framework that we are bonded to the past, and ultimately, guided into the future.<br>Master of Architecture

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No. of bitstreams: 1 ritadecassiamesquitadealmeida.pdf: 2518621 bytes, checksum: 500bc6d615740a6713fea0bdf21f976a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-31<br>FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais<br>A proposta desta Dissertação de Mestrado está em pensar e refletir, sob o ponto de vista da Educação e, mais especificamente, do Ensino de História, sobre questões relacionadas aos diversos tipos de aprendizagem possíveis num espaço não-escolar, mas profundamente arraigado em nosso cotidiano: a cidade. Dessa maneira, Palimpsestos Urbanos: aprendizagens históricas em tramas de memória da cidade é um trabalho cujo o foco de olhar está em perceber como a problematização das várias camadas de tempo existentes numa cidade é necessária para se pensar em Ensino de História com a cidade e, assim, propiciar o desenvolvimento de competências necessárias para a aprendizagem da História. Como eixo de questões de investigação, tem-se: De que maneira a análise da cidade e de seus lugares de memória nos permite pensar sobre novas formas de experienciar a cidade? / A discussão feita a partir da relação entre histórias de vida, pensadas a partir de um lugar de memória da cidade, e o patrimônio preservado pode ser uma ferramenta para o Ensino de História com a cidade? / O que a ação de pensar as relações individuais estabelecidas entre o patrimônio material (edificações, monumentos, sítios históricos, etc.) e imaterial (ofícios urbanos e outros), e as formas de orientação dos sujeitos nos espaços urbanos permite traçar novas estratégias para uma Educação Patrimonial que privilegie as diversas perspectivas presentes para um mesmo bem cultural? A pesquisa realizou-se em um lugar de memória (Nora, 1993) consagrado, tanto pela população como pelo poder público, da cidade de Juiz de Fora-MG, e, a partir de observações, selecionou-se nove pessoas, definidas aqui como praticantes ordinários (Certeau, 1994), ou seja, aqueles que, cotidianamente (Certeau, 2009) consomem e vivem aquele lugar. Com as entrevistas, conclui-se que esses praticantes ordinários são portadores de racionalidade e sensibilidade (Galzerani, 2010) para refletir sobre o patrimônio da cidade. Afastando-se da Educação Patrimonial Clássica (Grunberg, 2007), que defende a ideia de um processo educativo tendo o patrimônio como foco principal, a pesquisa se propõe a discutir uma nova forma de se pensar práticas educativas na cidade, enfatizando as relações e os diferentes tipos de percepções que podem ocorrem entre praticantes ordinários e o bem cultural, estimulando a narrativa desses sujeitos. Pensar sobre o que representa para a Educação e o Ensino de História desvelar a dinâmica da experiência urbana e a dinâmica que se estabelece pela relação com o urbano entre tempo, Memória, cotidiano e narrativas, eixos essenciais, porque estão espontaneamente pela cidade e pautam a vida das pessoas na sua relação igualmente espontânea com processos educativos não-escolarizados. Cada sujeito, portanto, passaria a ser considerado um sujeito-narrador em potencial.<br>The proposition of this Master Dissertation is of thinking and reflecting, on the point of view of Education and, more specifically, of History teaching, over issues related to the various possible types of learning in an out-of-school space but also deeply ingrained in our day-by-day: the city. Thus, Urban palimpsests: historical learning through plots of city history is a work of which focus is in perceiving how the questioning of several layers of time existing in a city is required to think about History Teaching with the city, that way promoting the development of necessary skills to the learning of History. As axis of investigation questions, there are: In which manner the analysis of the city and its memoir locations allow us to think about new ways of experiencing the first? / Can a discussion made from the relation between life histories, thought from a memoir location of the city, and the preserved heritage, be a tool for History Teaching with the city? / What the action of thinking individual relationships established between the material (buildings, monuments, historic sites, etc..) and immaterial (urban crafts and others) heritage, and the forms of orientation of subjects in urban areas allows to be drawn as of new strategies for a Heritage Education that privileges the diverse perspectives for a same cultural wellness? The research took place at a memoir location (Nora, 1993) set out by both, the population and the government of the city of Juiz de Fora, MG and, through observations, nine people were selected, defined here as ordinary practitioners (Certeau, 1994), ie, those who daily (Certeau, 2009) consume and live that place. With the interviews, it was understood that these ordinary practitioners are carriers of rationality and sensibility (Galzerani, 2010) to reflect over the heritage of the city. Stepping away from the Classical Heritage Education (Grunberg, 2007), which defends the idea of an educational process with the heritage as the main focus, the research puts itself into discussing a new way of thinking educational practices in the city, highlighting the relationships and different types of perceptions that may occur among ordinary practitioners and the cultural wellness, stimulating the narrative of these subjects. Think about what it represents for Education and History Teaching to unveil the dynamics of urban experience and the dynamics which establishes itself through the relationship with the urban within Time, Memory, the Everyday Life and Narratives, essential axes, as they lie spontaneously in the city and guide the lives of people in their also spontaneous relationship with non-scholar educational processes. Each subject, therefore, would be considered a potential narrator-subject.

This thesis uses the palimpsest as an interpretative lens through which to consider various rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris. The corpus date range reflects the extent of the mystères urbains phenomenon, from 1842, when serial publication of Sue’s novel began, to 1905, when serialization of Jules Lermina’s Mystère-ville was completed, and after which the mystères tended to adopt new settings and new preoccupations. Chapters I and II provide introduction and contextualization. Chapter III analyses the paratextual matter used to ‘package’ the texts, specifically prefaces, footnotes and illustrations. Chapter IV considers issues of identity, namely the emergence of the detective character, the role played by secret societies, and the implications of rewriting gender roles. Chapter V deals with geographical and temporal transpositions and Chapter VI compares feuilleton and book versions, as well as examining theatre adaptations and parodies. By way of conclusion, Chapter VII underlines the enduring relevance of the mystères urbains, as well as suggesting avenues for future research. The characteristic common to these rewritings is an insistent self-consciousness. Paratexts impinge on texts and become, in an irreverent parody of their own conventions, complicit in the mystification of the reader. Extra-diegetic phenomena, such as the emergence of the detective character, the rise of an eclectic, indeterminate group of popular readers, and the conflation of reading and writing activities encouraged by the serial form, are reproduced en abyme within the novels. Similarly, geographical and temporal transpositions transcend their diegetic category, repeatedly proving themselves to have a meta-diegetic resonance. American-set mystères reflect the Americanization of culture, while temporal transpositions cultivate confusion between Histoire and histoire. The reader’s attention is deliberately diverted from the mysteries of the cities to the machinations of the text itself. This self-reflexivity is characteristic of literary modernity, but especially prominent in these mystères urbains, where the relationship between text and context is a significant one. The city provides not only the subject matter of the mystères, but also the forum for the production, consumption, reception and rewriting of the texts.

The intention and aim of this investigation is to pursue a coherent and cogent argument, as the architectural discipline exists as a profession of relationships, where nothing exists in isolation. Volume 1 is a vantage point from which to view and interpret the ensuing volumes. The project flowed from a personal belief and passion shared by both students. The project aims to allow each student to develop and situate their individual schemes around this central argument, responding to various inputs and effects that the volume offers. The approach to this project is rooted in an understanding of past, present and future, with particular focus on the future as a response to the past. The project is speculative in nature, and should be viewed, understood and interpreted as such.<br>Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.<br>Architecture<br>MArch(Prof)<br>Unrestricted

This work exposes the outcomes obtained from the research performed in the urban context ambit that focus on Urban Archaeology as a support to understand the city of Laranjeiras, Sergipe. The city here is understood from the construction of modernity based in the practices and social behavior resulting from the adoption of the bourgeois way of life. The purpose is to draw a historical-urban panorama of Laranjeiras of the nineteenth century and analyze their dynamics, under the hypothesis the local construction of modernity from representations and practices politics, economic and social of its population. Therefore, I approached about the historical site “The Ruins of the Theatre”, this local was the stage for many activities that constituted its palimpsests. The methodology applied is solidified on the theoretical reference of Urban Archaeology to interpret and contextualize the history of the building and, thereby, identify the evolution of the city of Laranjeiras and its urban development. The results allowed to build the concept of modernity from the particularities of the landed elite, of German immigrants, free workers and the large number of slaves, social agents responsible for building, spread and consolidation of ideas of modernity that desolated the Brazil at the turn of XIX century.<br>Este trabalho expõe os resultados da pesquisa efetivada no âmbito da Arqueologia Urbana como aporte para interpretar a cidade de Laranjeiras/SE. A cidade aqui é entendida a partir da construção de modernidade consubstanciada nas práticas e comportamentos sociais resultantes da adoção do modo de vida burguês. O objetivo é traçar um panorama histórico-urbano da Laranjeiras Oitocentista e analisar a sua dinâmica, tendo como hipótese a construção local da modernidade a partir de representações e práticas políticas, econômicas e sociais de sua população. Para tanto, abordei o sítio histórico “Ruínas do Teatro”, palco de várias atividades, que constituíram os seus palimpsestos. A metodologia aplicada esta solidificada no referencial teórico da Arqueologia Urbana para interpretar a história do edifício e assim, identificar o desenvolvimento urbano da cidade de Laranjeiras. Os resultados permitiram construir a concepção de modernidade a partir das particularidades da elite agrária, de imigrantes germânicos, dos trabalhadores livres e do grande contingente de escravos, agentes sociais responsáveis pela construção, propagação e consolidação das ideias de modernidade que afetaram o Brasil na virada do século XIX.

Notre travail se propose d'analyser les formes et les fonctions que peut revêtir le paysage dans un corpus de textes épiques posthomériques. Les Argonautiques d'Apollonios de Rhodes et leur réécriture tardive anonyme, les Argonautiques Orphiques, les Posthomériques de Quintus de Smyrne, la Prise d'Ilion de Triphiodore et les Dionysiaques de Nonnos de Panopolis nous offrent un champ d’investigation fructueux pour analyser les représentations littéraires du paysage de manière transhistorique. Nos textes opèrent une première transformation du paysage épique archaïque qui est d'abord l'image du monde avec laquelle il se confond (adéquation posée entre bouclier, île et monde) en détachant de cette équation le paysage pour lui conférer une plus grande autonomie. Le monde devient une mosaïque de paysages autonomes qui gagnent en épaisseur du fait qu'ils se chargent d'une dimension identitaire. La polymorphie du paysage donne alors sa texture mouvante au monde des Grecs : c'est la dimension plastique et artiste que le texte de poésie épique emprunte pour mettre en mots ces images du monde qui révèle les formes du paysage épique. Une diversité de schèmes paysagers émergent et ouvre l'intertexte littéraire à l'hétérogénéité des formes artistiques. De cette fusion de processus et de formes naît une singularité bien antique de perception et de traduction du paysage : la merveille. Paysage et merveille s'entremêlent étroitement au point de se substituer l'un à l'autre : c'est là une définition possible du paysage antique à partir de la période hellénistique. Mais le paysage ainsi identifié et construit appartient aussi au monde dont il contribue à imager la forme. Il est clairement localisé d'un point de vue géographique : image vivante d'une partie du monde il lui offre son identité par ses caractéristiques topiques singulières. Il est une forme d'identification régionale et confine au vernaculaire. Le paysage devient un instrument de promotion intellectuelle et culturelle. Entre diversité formelle et singularité locale, le paysage voyage entre fiction et réel : ses modalités de construction empruntent au littéraire et à l'artistique et s'étendent ensuite grandeur nature. Le genre épique, marqué par l'intertextualité innovante, fait du paysage l'image même du processus de transposition et d'adaptation. Manifestation de l'exercice d'une subjectivité antique singulière puis collective, instrument de mesure du travail de l'imaginaire à l’œuvre dans les processus complexes de réception littéraire et culturelle, le paysage antique entre transmission et invention, s'ouvre à l'expérience quotidienne et sociale. Son existence antique est effective<br>The undertaking of this work is to analyze the forms and functions that the landscape can take in a corpus of posthomeric epic texts. The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and its late anonymous rewriting The Orphic Argonautica, the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus, the Ilioupersis of Triphiodorus, and The Dionysiaca of Nonnus Panopolitanus provide us with a fruitful field of investigation for the analysis of the literary representations of the landscape as transhistorical. Firstly, our texts operate one transformation of the archaic epic landscape that is first the image of the world with which it merges (the conformity placed between shield, island, and world) by separating the landscape from this equation and giving it greater autonomy. The world is a mosaic of autonomous landscapes that gain texture as they take on a dimension of identity. The polymorphism of the landscape then gives its moving texture to the world of the ancient Greeks : the plastic and artist dimension is borrowed by the Epic text to put into words the images of the world, which reveal epic landforms. A variety of landscape patterns emerges and opens the literary intertext to the heterogeneity of artistic forms. From this fusion of process and forms, a singularity arises, a singularity particularly antique of the perception and the translation of the landscape : wonder. Landscape and wonder mingle so narrowly as to substitute one for the other : this is a possible definition of the ancient landscape from the Hellenistic period. But the landscape as thus identified and constructed also belongs to the world the image of which it contributes to form. It is clearly localized in a geographical perspective : the landscape becomes a vivid picture of the world and the former offers the latter its identity by its unique topical characteristics. It is a form of regional identification and it is sometimes confined to the vernacular. The landscape becomes an instrument for intellectual and cultural promotion. Between formal diversity and local singularity, the landscape travels between fiction and reality : its construction methods borrow from the literary and artistic and then extend to nature. The epic genre, characterised by innovative intertextuality, makes the landscape the image of the process of transposition and adaptation. As a manifestation of the exercise of a singular and then a collective ancient subjectivity, the landscape is an instrument for measuring the unfolding of the imagination at work in the complex process of literary reception and cultural transmission ; the ancient landscape between transmission and invention, opens itself up to the everyday and social experience. Its ancient existence is effective

The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.<br>Doctor of Philosophy<br>The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.

The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.<br>Doctor of Philosophy<br>The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.

En la ciudad de Lima se encuentra disperso un vasto legado patrimonial precolombino de canales, caminos y huacas, este subyace y en algunos casos asoma en el palimpsesto urbano, sin participar como un privilegio para el lugar, ni para la población que lo posee. Este trabajo de investigación busca visibilizar al patrimonio por su alcance de valor histórico y cultural como componentes de un sistema que domesticó un territorio desértico para transformarlo en un valle construido; lo que les permitió ocuparlo. Al estar disperso, es un denominador común que deriva en una red de puntos simbólicos en el paisaje que pudiera ser parte del imaginario urbano, por lo que se define la estrategia de significar el lugar por el patrimonio presente o ausente, como condicionantes a tomar en cuenta en la operación y diseño del espacio público. Se elabora una guía con lineamientos generales en base a la configuración espacial, propia de cada componente precolombino. Esta guía se aplica en un proyecto piloto con el objetivo de validar las hipótesis planteadas.<br>In the city of Lima there is a vast dispersed pre-Columbian patrimonial legacy of channels, roads and burial sites which underlie and, in some cases, show in the urban palimpsest, but that do not participate as a privilege for the place or the population who owns it. This investigation task seeks to make visible this patrimony for the sake of its historical and cultural value as the components of a system that domesticated a desertic territory to transform it into a viable valley that could be inhabited. Being dispersed is the common denominator that derives into a network of symbolic points in the landscape that could be part of an imaginary urban place, and this leads to define the strategy to give a meaning to the place based on the patrimony present and absent, as a precondition to take into consideration in the design of a public space. General guidelines are elaborated based on the spatial configuration of every pre-Columbian component. This guide of map is applied to a pilot project to validate the proposed hypothesis.

Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-07T18:58:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000410792-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 1046484 bytes, checksum: 328043957a824a98643a61349be9bc22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009<br>The creation of the Municipality of Pelotas in the 19th Century was based upon a saladeiril system which had previously existed for approximately a century. The purpose of this research is to analyze, using Pelotas as a case study, the economic and urban reappropriation of the space of the old charqueadas which have been transformed into industries. The analysis discusses, through representations of the city and its peripheral areas, this transformation process with respect to the integration and linkages between the charqueadas and the rest of the urban network. The research seeks to interpret how the area was occupied by the charqueada industry, and, afterwards, was characterized as the opposite of a modern planned city, being abandoned to free enterprise and speculative property investments. In this process, the analysis of two improvement projects (Rullman and Saturnino de Brito) was fundamental for the perception of the creation of the new image that the city was taking on. The surviving sites of production represent an architectural and industrial heritage which make it possible to understand the development of this process. The final part of this research has been to investigate the trajectory in time of the urban and architectural space on the banks of the São Gonçalo Canal, in its different uses and forms of integration in the urban network, looking to understand its relationships, importance and legacy for the formation of the city of Pelotas.<br>A criação do município de Pelotas no século XIX baseou-se no sistema saladeiril que já vinha sendo utilizado há aproximadamente um século. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a reapropriação econômica e urbana de um espaço delimitado por antigas charqueadas que, com o passar dos anos se transformaram em indústrias, dentro da categoria de estudo de caso. Esse processo será analisado integrando e relacionando o restante da malha urbana através da problemática da construção de representações da cidade e de suas áreas periféricas. Procurou-se interpretar a forma como a área foi sendo ocupada pela indústria charqueadora e, posteriormente, caracterizada como o avesso da cidade moderna e deixada à livre iniciativa e à ação da especulação imobiliária. Nesse processo, a análise de dois projetos de melhoramentos (Rullmann e Saturnino de Brito) foi fundamental para o entendimento do novo panorama em que a cidade estava se inserindo. As estruturas produtivas remanescentes geraram um patrimônio arquitetônico e industrial que possibilita a narrativa dessa trajetória, aqui problematizada nesse espaço urbano e arquitetônico às margens do Canal São Gonçalo, em suas diferentes ocupações e formas de integração na malha urbana, visando compreender as suas relações, importância e legado para a formação urbana da cidade de Pelotas.

Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, com a especialização em Urbanismo para obtenção de grau de Mestre.<br>O presente documento tem como objectivo uma intervenção baseada na leitura vernacular do território. Está composto por três partes, sendo a primeira uma aproximação teórica - Da Terra ao Céu, relativa ao estudo dos territórios intermédios, à interpretação dos caminhos da Terra e à possibilidade de novos caminhos do ar. A segunda parte - De Volta à Terra, compõe uma análise formal do território, de uma macro-escala a uma micro-escala. A terceira parte - Proposta de Intervenção, é um culminar dos estudos anteriores aplicados no território. Ao longo do documento serão feitas várias comparações e sobreposições do território em três espaços temporais relativos ao Passado, ao Presente e ao Futuro. Os percursos ancestrais permitem uma leitura do território numa primeira fase do desenvolvimento das cidades. Estas ligações de atravessamento de grandes distâncias serviam para o transporte e ligação entre povoações. Nasce uma rede de circulação primária, derivada de um somatório de condicionantes topográficas e eventuais pontos de interesse, que percorre a paisagem, mais ou menos intensos e complexos: quintas, castelos, palácios, pedreiras encontram-se ao longo destes caminhos. Esta proposta não se foca no antigo e tradicional mas numa solução que integra o conceito vernacular na cidade contemporânea e no futuro. Procura-se uma convergência entre o que a cidade apresenta e o que a cidade precisa, baseada nos seus traçados e artefactos. Entender a indentidade local e preservá-la torna-se fulcral para a cidade ser um território socio, economica e ambientalmente sustentável no futuro. A abordagem aos percursos ancestrais foca-se proeminentemente nos territórios intermédios (In-between). Estes são o resultado de um processo de urbanização fragmentado e despegado da sua indentidade local, que gera uma série de territórios de carácter intersticial, barreiras espaciais que dificultam a consolidação dos tecidos urbanos contemporanêos. A intervenção nestes territórios intermédios, sendo o vale da ribeira das Jardas em Massamá o caso de trabalho, baseia-se em dois tempos fulcrais das cidades, o passado e o futuro, utilizando o projecto como ferramenta de intervenção urbana. Tem-se por objectivo revitalizar a indentidade espacial, social e económica tornando o espaço urbano fluído no palimpsesto na área metropolitana de Lisboa. O que permite transformar os territórios intermédios em territórios intermediários. O passado, interpretado como Caminhos da Terra, será centrado em percursos topográficos de conexões menos evidentes entre uma série de pontos de interesse secundários do território. O Futuro, interpretado como Caminhos do Ar, será centrado em novas conexões, que atravessam do modo mais direto possível estes espaços intermédios entre fragmentos urbanos. Os caminhos do Terra e do Ar, irão fundir-se com a malha urbana tornando o “urbano” em “cidade”.<br>ABSTRACT: This document aims at an intervention based on vernacular reading of the territory. It consists of three parts, the first of which is a theoretical approach - From Earth to Heaven, concerning the study of intermediate territories, the interpretation of Earth’s paths and the possibility of new air paths. The second part - Back to Earth, composes a formal analysis of the territory, from a macro-scale to a micro-scale. The third part - Proposal for Intervention, is a culmination of previous studies applied to the territory. Throughout the document several comparisons and overlaps of the territory will be made in three time spaces relative to the Past, Present and Future. The ancestral paths allow a reading of the territory in a first phase of the development of cities. These long distance crossings served to transport and connect villages. A primary circulation network is born, derived from a sum of topographical constraints and possible points of interest, which runs through the landscape, more or less intense and complex: farms, castles, palaces, quarries are found along these paths. This proposal does not focus on the old and traditional but on a solution that integrates the vernacular concept in the contemporary city and the future. A convergence is sought between what the city presents and what the city needs, based on its traces and artefacts. Understanding the local identity and preserving it becomes central for the city to be a socio-economically and environmentally sustainable territory in the future. The approach to ancestral paths focuses prominently on intermediate territories (In-between). These are the result of a process of fragmented urbanization and detached from their local identity, which generates a series of territories of interstitial character, spatial barriers that hinder the consolidation of contemporary urban fabrics. The intervention in these intermediate territories, the valley of the Ribeira das Jardas in Massamá being the case of work, is based on two central times of the cities, the past and the future, using the project as a tool for urban intervention. It aims to revitalize the spatial, social and economic identity, making the urban space fluid on the palimpsest in the Lisbon metropolitan area. This allows the transformation of intermediate territories into intermediate territories. The past, interpreted as Paths of the Earth, will be centered on topographic paths of less evident connections between a series of secondary points of interest in the territory. The Future, interpreted as Paths of the Air, will be centered on new connections, which cross these intermediate spaces between urban fragments in the most direct way possible. The paths of Earth and Air, will merge with the urban network turning the “urban” into "city"<br>N/A

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:46:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 410792.pdf: 1046484 bytes, checksum: 328043957a824a98643a61349be9bc22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-25<br>A cria??o do munic?pio de Pelotas no s?culo XIX baseou-se no sistema saladeiril que j? vinha sendo utilizado h? aproximadamente um s?culo. O objetivo deste trabalho ? analisar a reapropria??o econ?mica e urbana de um espa?o delimitado por antigas charqueadas que, com o passar dos anos se transformaram em ind?strias, dentro da categoria de estudo de caso. Esse processo ser? analisado integrando e relacionando o restante da malha urbana atrav?s da problem?tica da constru??o de representa??es da cidade e de suas ?reas perif?ricas. Procurou-se interpretar a forma como a ?rea foi sendo ocupada pela ind?stria charqueadora e, posteriormente, caracterizada como o avesso da cidade moderna e deixada ? livre iniciativa e ? a??o da especula??o imobili?ria. Nesse processo, a an?lise de dois projetos de melhoramentos (Rullmann e Saturnino de Brito) foi fundamental para o entendimento do novo panorama em que a cidade estava se inserindo. As estruturas produtivas remanescentes geraram um patrim?nio arquitet?nico e industrial que possibilita a narrativa dessa trajet?ria, aqui problematizada nesse espa?o urbano e arquitet?nico ?s margens do Canal S?o Gon?alo, em suas diferentes ocupa??es e formas de integra??o na malha urbana, visando compreender as suas rela??es, import?ncia e legado para a forma??o urbana da cidade de Pelotas.

This dissertation investigates to use and increase existing vibrancy to revitalize an urban environment. The urban response is to consolidate existing functions within Rua De Bagamoyo, as a night- life precinct through the introduction of gaming as an extension of the existing night- life activity. The architectural response is to focus on a building that houses a casino and facility for prostitutes that challenges the private-public relationships of place by extending the street into the built form and the form into the street through a series of threshold spaces that explore the notions of visual and physical access.<br>Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.<br>Architecture<br>unrestricted

Many urban poor are living lifestyles prescient of a future with little to no accessible fossil fuels, a future lacking easy access to electricity, flowing water, and food security. Scientists such as David Holmgren warn that the rest of society may face a similar scenario. According to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO 2008), the peak of oil discovery happened in the 1960’s. In 1981 the world started using more than what was found in new fields and since then the gap between discovery and production has been ever widening, many countries have already passed their peak, which indicates that a global peak is imminent. This dissertation investigates a new typology for urban living. An area south of Marabastad, in the north-western quadrant of the city of Pretoria is selected as the wasted landscape for testing the hypothesis that a drosscape has the potential to be designed and developed into an agrarian conservancy to support a society in need of sustainable, innovative places. Part One of the dissertation investigates agriculture as a method for returning the site to some utilitarian efficiency. However, landscapes contain the potential to be more than functional tracts of land with no meaning. Thus Part Two of the dissertation investigates the fact that a creative approach to the implementation of city farming in the Steenovenspruit drosscape can ingrain in the modern industrial city a place with which the inhabitants can identify, where form does not only follow function but also enhances and expresses the celebration of man’s working relationship with the land, as well as celebrating the historic traces evident on the landscape. A palimpsest emerges out of the faint residue of past uses, displaying traces of the character the site once had. The dissertation proposes that by capturing the essence of these past layers of productive use and further enriching the palimpsest by introducing traces of farming and gardens, meaning and experiential use of the land will be returned to the people of Marabastad. The dissertation also proposes that through this experiential use the community is once again able to leave traces on the landscape and lift the site out of limbo and once again into the process of place-making, or refounding. A conservancy is proposed for the Steenovenspruit drosscape which combines the concept of palimpsest and the poetic nature of farming across a number of city blocks, connecting Marabastad and the CBD. The conservancy encapsulates a variety of land uses including residential and gathering traces, however the core of the conservancy centres around a historical city block which formed part of the old Pretoria townlands and which morphs once again into productive landscape.<br>Dissertation ML(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.<br>Architecture<br>ML(Prof)<br>Unrestricted

Suen Chi Hang Kevin.<br>"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1999-2000, design report."<br>Synopsis in English and Chinese.<br>synopsis<br>建造中的城市<br>(city under construction)<br>prologue<br>a walk in the city<br>void in memory<br>experience memory<br>conception<br>definition of memory<br>(part one and part two)<br>memory is ..... (part three)<br>proposition<br>interference<br>surgery in city<br>"""black box"""<br>site[s]<br>event[s]<br>program<br>0000 - 0500 - 0800 - 1200 - 1800 - 2000<br>progress<br>flow - connection - disconnection<br>non-programmatic vs. programmatic<br>landscape<br>interweaving<br>hybrid<br>palimpsest<br>an experimental hybrid in Mongkok

This thesis called The Term of Palimpsest and its Application in Examining of the Urban Space focuses on providing a more complex perspective of the analysis of urban space through the metaphor of text and also palimpsest. Thanks to the disintegration of the concept of the text multiple layers of reality began to be progressively viewed - from the literature to the culture text. This opens up the possibility to contemplate the city as well as another type of text, respectively in a metaphorical sense of intertextuality as so-called palimpsest. The work focuses on these terms in the theoretical part and suggests the urban space term and the possibility of examination. The empirical part is dedicated to the application of developer theoretical basis onto the site-specific urban space of the Prague's Peter's district. The anchoring of the palimpsest in the semiosphere of culture and cultural texts of historical depth but does not provide possibilities of complete renovation and securing the continuity of interpretation. This does not seem to be an obstacle for the set more complex view of palimpsest, on contrary it better reflects and deals with such this continuity. It helps to seek roots and identity of cities and their inhabitants.

The thesis called The term of Palimpsest and Intertextuality in the Antropological- ethnological analysis of urban space focuses on examination of urban space from the point of view of the metaphorical conception of the term text, intertext and palimpsest. By extending the meaning of the term text from the original concept in literary science to broader layers of reality, it is possible to apply it to urban space, and then read it as an urban text. Due to the fact that the urban environment consists of many layers, it becomes an interesting solution for its complex grasp to use the term palimpsest and intertext. The first theoretical part aims to explain these concepts. The second theoretical part deals with anthropological and ethnological approaches to urban space, while the perspective of the individual who walks through the city and lets it affect becomes essential for this walker. The content of the third, applied part is then the specific space of the Nuselské údolí (Nusle valley) and its immediate surroundings, within which the individual becomes a player in the game between space and his perception. The individual layers of the environment are examined from the perspective of concepts and anthropological-ethnological approaches, which, however, do not provide a complete and exhaustive...

The mining that gave rise to Johannesburg as a city has left in its wake pieces of geologically disturbed, disused, and unusable land. These leftover fragments of landscape carry with them, not only memory of the city’s foundations, but scars of the mining processes that now render them unusable - Not only do these vaguescapes have potential for the memory within them to be unearthed, but they are highly polluted, and seek to be reimagined as productive city spaces. The chosen site, an abandoned piece of mineland with a concealed old mine shaft; on the edge of a highway on the fringe of the CBD, is simultaneously highly visible to the city, but forgotten to it. Its positioning is unique in that it allows for the potential for the extraction of the mine pollutants and site remediation to become a highly visible process. Understanding and uncovering layers and traces of the site as means of understanding what is possible on this highly polluted landscape became an important architectural and design generator. The architecture consolidates and reimagines the fragments of ruin, both physical and ephemeral, contained on the site, and curates the users experience through these forgotten traces. Its programme - a colour plant, which extracts useful metallic colour pigments from the contaminated earth, becomes a visceral reminder of these past traces ;and a recording device for the current consequences of past mining activity. The approach is an almost critical speculation. The age of the picturesque landscape is no more. Our effects on the land have depleted the earth and diseased its rhythms. But these unstable consequences hold possibilities that can be engaged with imaginatively; rather than merely re-mediated. How can architecture engage with this instability? The project accepts the presence of rising acid mine water; and imagines a new reality emerging from it. The project is a comment on our own epoch; one where waste, toxicity and radiation are so rife, that they are now a quiet, sinister backdrop to our world. More than an apocalyptic future, this project deals with a dystopian present. The precarious site conditions pose questions for an architecture which can engage with the instability, and not merely withstand it. The architectural concern is to render visible and intensify a consciousness of these traces, to investigate a palimpsest infrastructure. Colour, like architecture is a link between the conscious and the subconscious. It is a mediator between the realms. It holds possibilities for suggesting and molding atmospheres and perceptions. The architecture negotiates all the realms, concerned with past, present and future. It consolidates and makes apparent the traces but it is also developed with an awareness that it becomes part of these traces. It is an intervention which aims to heighten an awareness of the presence of the past in the life of the city; and also as palimpsest infrastructure; as a recording device for the geological happenings of the earth.

Uma das condições da cidade é a sua falta de linearidade, esta divide-se e subdivide-se em fragmentos com caracteres distintos, se por um lado é coesa no desenho que apresenta, por outro conseguimos observar as partes tão diferentes que a constituem. Estas partes diferem entre si devido à presença do fator tempo, uma constante que implica que a cidade evolua e se transforme, que a arquitetura se altere e se redesenhe. Esta dimensão inserida na arquitetura encontra-se no centro de muitas discussões sobre a condição da cidade contemporânea. Com a globalização e a culturalização das diferentes populações, surge uma preocupação delirante com a conservação e recuperação dos tempos perdidos da cidade antiga. A cidade contemporânea é composta de várias cidades, sobrepostas umas sobre as outras, originando um palimpsesto urbano de formas e memórias. É necessário interpretar o tempo presente como uma contribuição à cidade, as intervenções como modo, não de refazer ou apagar o passado, mas de recuperar o valor deste, numa atitude progressista do mesmo. Considerar que o presente se irá tornar passado deverá ser uma conceção primária no desenho de projeto, porque só assim será possível informar o futuro sobre a cidade de hoje, não apenas através da teoria, mas através da materialidade dos espaços e da vivência destes. Negligenciar o tempo presente no tempo do projeto resulta em ocultar uma camada de cidade; descurar o passado signifca ignorar a memória de um lugar, e ambas são essenciais para o desenho da cidade e da arquitetura. Intervir no palimpsesto urbano implica recuperar o passado, não no sentido de imitá-lo, mas no sentido de reinventá-lo para a contemporaneidade.<br>One of the conditions of the city is its lack of linearity, it divides and subdivides in fragments with distinct characters. If in one hand its coese in the image that it presents, in the other we can see the different parts of his constitution. The difference of this parts happens because of the presence of time, a constant that implies that the city evolves and transform, and the architecture modifes and redesigns. This dimension, present in architecture, fnds itself in the center of many discussions about the condition of the contemporary city. With the globalization and culturalization of different populations, emerges a frenetic preoccupation with the conservancy and recovery of lost times in the old city. The contemporary city is made of several cities overlaying each other, resulting in an urban palimpsest of forms and memories. It’s necessary to understand the present time as a contribution to the city, and the interventions as a way, not to redo or erase the past, but recover its value, in a progressive attitude towards itself. Considering that the present is on its way to become the past should be a primary conception of the project, because only that way we can inform the future about the city of today, not just through theory, but through the materiality of spaces and its living. Neglecting the present time in the project results in concealing one layer of the city; Disregarding the past means ignoring the memory of the place, and both are essential to the design of the city as well as to the design of architecture. Acting on the urban palimpsest implies recovering the past, not in the way of reproducing it, but in the way of reinvent it for the contemporaneity.