Gabriel Silvestre- PhD, Planning Studies
- Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at Newcastle University
Gabriel Silvestre
- PhD, Planning Studies
- Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at Newcastle University
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning - Newcastle University
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Introduction
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, Newcastle University. Research interests include the areas of urban politics, planning knowledge and mega-projects/events.
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February 2021 - present
July 2017 - February 2021
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This paper provides a comparative analysis of three symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects in Latin American cities: the inter-referencing practices alluded to in relation to projects from elsewhere, legitimating strategies that are discursively and materially constructed to present these projects as socially distributive, and subs...
Políticas transformadoras de planejamento urbano capazes de enfrentar a reprodução das desigualdades nas cidades brasileiras têm sido caracterizadas, nas últimas décadas, por dois processos inter-relacionados. Por um lado, a ampla coalizão relativamente coesa e duradoura sob a bandeira da "agenda da reforma urbana" tem sido capaz, desde os anos 198...
This collection of specially commissioned essays investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. Together they explore how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and
the right to the city int...
Transformative planning practices able to confront the reproduction of inequalities in Brazilian cities have, in recent decades, been characterised by two interrelated processes. On the one hand, the relatively cohesive and enduring broad coalition under the banner of the ‘urban reform agenda’ has since the 1980s been able to shape and influence le...
This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into...
This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into...
This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into...
This paper examines the growth of the Olympic Games against that of former host cities to understand whether this mega-event may have ‘outgrown’ its hosts. The increasing hosting requirements and governments’ expansive use of mega-events as tools for urban development would suggest that the ‘Olympic city’ – a term we use for describing the size of...
The internationalisation of academic programmes is important to raise awareness of global challenges and facilitate a more inclusive understanding of cultural differences. Trans-national academic courses can potentially enrich planning knowledge, the student experience and expand the repertoire of teaching and learning styles. Reflecting on an ongo...
Aludir a la movilidad de políticas urbanas supone simul-táneamente una cualidad del objeto de estudio: políticas urbanas que se mueven y una metodología de análisis ligada a cómo analizar tal movimiento (Jajamovich, 2018). Por "política urbana", estamos considerando aquí solo las acciones estatales/gubernamentales que afectan y poten-cialmente tran...
Alguns exemplos se propõem a construir uma alternativa à política tradicional e desafiar a velha esquerda regional
Algunos ejemplos de nuevo municipalismo, que proponen construir una alternativa a la política tradicional desde los movimientos ciudadanos, intentan interpelar a la vieja izquierda latinoamericana
Este texto se centra en la difusión de ideas, transferencias y movilidad
de políticas urbanas en América Latina. Por política urbana
estamos considerando aquí sólo las acciones estatales/gubernamentales
que afectan y, potencialmente, transforman el espacio urbano (Marques,
2017) y su materialidad, es decir, las redes de infraestructura, inauguracio...
Model cities are exemplary cases representing a particular policy and/or practice approach. The external gaze is a necessary condition in the attainment of such prestige and city leaders often engage in promotional activities to boost the reputation of their cities while audiences attempt to translate references into usable knowledge. However, ther...
This paper interrogates and expands understandings of agency in processes of knowledge circulation by focusing on actors switching their position from the demand-side to the supply side of policy knowledge. In doing so, we contribute to recent debates about the importance of accounting to other scales beyond the local–global binary that dominates t...
On the surface, contemporary urban megaprojects suggest a convergence in form: office towers, hotels, museums, shopping and renewed public spaces often involving transnational firms and renowned architectsHowever, framing local policiesas instances of a ‘serial reproduction’ of iconic landscapes obscures more than reveals how circulating planning m...
Research on policy mobility has tended to focus on what moves (e.g. policy models, templates) and who moves them (e.g. consultants, international organizations) with less attention paid to the relational politics of grounding dominant ideas in local policy making. The ‘demand side’ at the end of the mobilization process (e.g. local authorities and...
Dentre as experiências alçadas à condição de modelo em matéria de política urbana, aquela verificada na cidade de Barcelona nas últimas décadas figura entre as mais notórias. Seu prestígio é fruto tanto de sua circulação nos meios políticos e profissionais como também resultado de esforços ativos em sua internacionalização. Este capítulo analiza a...
This chapter discusses Latin American cities and regions as an analytical category and a material reality. Rather than providing a definitive definition of what the Latin American city is vis-à-vis other categories, this chapter traces the intellectual history of the category and describes current urbanisation dynamics to highlight long-standing te...
The circulation of ideas and practices is intrinsic to the development of urban policies and cities. The mobilization of knowledge from elsewhere has been an important tool for the resolution of technical issues as well as to build political legitimacy. In this sense, Latin American cities provide a privileged viewpoint to observe these processes....
It has now become something of a norm for political leaders to justify their intentions in hosting mega-events with claims to turn their cities into “world class”, however vague this is defined. In Russia, this was no exception as President Vladimir Putin presented his speech to the International Olympic Committee on 4 July 2007 while making the ca...
Después de veinticinco años de su realización, los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona de 1992 permanecen como referencia de política de desarrollo urbano. Esta “estrategia de megaeventos” se yuxtapone a las realizaciones observadas en esta ciudad: la transformación de áreas de actividad económica en declive, la relevancia del espacio público y el city m...
After twenty-five years since its inception, the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games remain a benchmark of urban development policy. This “mega-event strategy” is part and parcel of the achievements observed in the city: the transformation of areas of declining economic activity, the relevance of the public space and the city marketing facilitated by the...
Brazil's second largest metropolitan area and one of the world's largest megalopolises, Rio de Janeiro is known for the beauty of its natural settings, its cultural heritage, and as a center of the oil and gas industry. It was an important colonial city of the Portuguese empire and capital of Brazil for almost 200 years until the construction of Br...
Brazil’s second largest metropolitan area and one of the world’s largest megalopolises, Rio de Janeiro is known for the beauty of its natural settings, its cultural heritage, and as a center of the oil and gas industry. It was an important colonial city of the Portuguese empire and capital of Brazil for almost 200 years until the construction of Br...
This chapter comprises two parts: a very brief history of socio-cultural and political aspects of sport (especially football) in Brazil that provides the background and context for the second that discusses contemporary aspects of mega-event bidding and hosting in Brazil. The first part focuses on the role of football in forging national identity a...
Rio de Janeiro's Olympic candidature for the 2004 Olympic Games mobilised concepts from the experience of Barcelona with the planning of the mega-event and proposed polemic urban legacies that were radically different from those seen in current plans.
A candidatura do Rio de Janeiro aos Jogos Olímpicos de 2004 mobilizou conceitos de planejamento de Barcelona com o megaevento e propôs legados urbanos polêmicos e radicalmente distintos dos que hoje se apresentam.
This chapter offers an overview of Rio de Janeiro’s past, the current processes of change, and a preliminary discussion of the legacies that will be left by the event. The first part charts the history of urban change, events and mega-projects that have shaped the development of the city. The second examines the different Olympic bids the city has...
A príncipio, a emergência da discussão de legado sugere uma preocupação com o planejamento de equipamentos após a realização de megaeventos que passa então a ser justificado pela retórica do desenvolvimento urbano e social. É neste contexto que o projeto olímpico de Londres 2012 foi concebido, uma proposta que teve seu êxito atribuído à uma visão d...
Mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup serve as important historical markers to examine the prevailing socio-political and the national and sub-national contexts in which they are produced. In the past, scholars have examined the association of hosting experiences with fascism, the Cold War, or developmental regimes. More rece...
The rationale of local politics in the city of Rio de Janeiro experienced a paradigmatic shift from 1993 when a new conservative government took office. The actors which composed that government came to dominate the political agenda in the following six mayoral terms establishing a stable political climate – except from occasional personal clashes...
Brazil emerged as an important contender for the hosting of mega-events over the past decade, ultimately securing the rights to organize both the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The city of Rio de Janeiro has been central in this strategy, due to play a prominent role in the former event and to take the lead from London after 20...
As the curtains are drawn in London's East End, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro will be under the international spotlight over the next four years. This paper focuses on the process of Olympic city-making in the West End of Rio de Janeiro, where the planning and construction of facilities and transport network have adversely affected low-income settlemen...
In October 2009, the city of Rio de Janeiro was announced the host of the XXXI Olympic Games. The news came as surprise to many commentators which have previously placed the city as the underdog amidst more high-profile bids, but for those involved with the Brazilian bid the award was the culmination of a project initiated sixteen years earlier. Du...
Introdução Na era moderna dos Jogos Olimpícos, o megaevento atendeu a oportunidades de cunho político (propaganda ideológica durante os anos de Guerra Fria), de realização de capital (como o modelo de gestao de Los Angeles'84 e Atlanta'96) e de promoção sustentável (Sydney'00). Mais recentemente, uma análise das candidaturas olímpicas parece indica...
The hosting of mega-events has been actively pursued by some of the world major centres as a way to 'fast-track' their urban regeneration agenda and stand out among the global competition for international capital. The Olympic Games has long been seen as a golden opportunity to achieve this but the fierce competition to host it has made some biddin...
