The Politics of Noise Control in São Paulo

Cardoso, Leonardo

doi:10.1017/s0022216x16001978

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“…Rather, variously empowered actors dispute and redraw established urban lines through everyday sensory interventions, so that the city is not only produced through state plans and market forces, but also through more routine socio-spatial negotiations (Jaffe et al, 2020). The mundane arbitration of sense-based differentiation is a crucial part of urban formation (Cardoso, 2017;Low, 2013) (Manalansan, 2006;Oosterbaan, 2009;Rhys-Taylor, 2013;Tan, 2013). Conjointly, literature on state and grassroots-led sensory negotiations shows how the senses add grain to the daily politics of urban life.…”

Section: Urban S Ensationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensing insecurity as skill: Urban violence and the politics of sensorial enskilment

Osbourne,

Frossard

2024

City & Society

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This special issue departs from the premise that the sensible dimensions of urban (in)security shape lived and embodied experiences of the city in ways that reflect and affect social and spatial forms of control, belonging, and inequality. As visceral as they may seem, we also contend that these sensorial registers of (in)security are far from given: they are learned and taught, whether consciously, or otherwise. Drawing on ideas of enskilment and apprenticeship, the articles that make up this thematic collection engage the sensorial attunement of urban dwellers to how risk and safety look and feel in a diverse set of cities. Rather than an end, this approach is a means to deepen our understanding of how processual, everyday geographies of inequality are reproduced in practices and imaginaries of urban security.

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Section: Urban S Ensationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensing insecurity as skill: Urban violence and the politics of sensorial enskilment

Osbourne,

Frossard

2024

City & Society

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“…The most recent Sustainability 2018, 10, 1870 6 of 38 version of NBR 101,151 [59] presents the method of measuring and evaluating noise, establishing noise levels according to the different types of areas and occupation (rural, urban, mixed, hospitals, schools and industrial) and hours of operation (day and night). Some Brazilian cities, such as São Paulo and Curitiba, have implemented actions to map, evaluate and control urban noise to reduce its impacts, including noise-free campaigns, noise measurement and mapping, and zoning laws [60,61].…”

Section: (C) Noise and Vibrationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Quantitative Method for Prediction of Environmental Aspects in Construction Sites of Residential Buildings

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Despite the sectoral initiatives, the construction industry faces difficulties in incorporating effective environmental impact control systems in construction sites. Most of the instruments have been adopting a qualitative approach to environmental issues, with few cases of a quantitative approach. This article introduces a quantitative method for predicting environmental aspects and impacts during the construction of residential buildings, through the integration between environmental indicators and construction cost bases. The methodology was based on the analysis of the relationships among activities, aspects and environmental impacts considered in EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) for the development of the method and its mathematical representation. A case study was carried out to evaluate the method using the bill of quantities (BOQ) from two residential construction sites to measure their environmental aspects. The results suggest the usefulness of the method in the decision-making process on the allocation of control systems and, in some cases, recommending the execution of off-site services to reduce the impacts on the site's neighborhood. Additionally, the method proved to be easy to apply to evaluate construction sites, as well as flexible to incorporate other activities, adapting to the demand of builders and municipalities to reduce the environmental impacts of construction sites.

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“…The associated measures have often been aimed at eliminating specific stimuli – removing signs of visual, auditory or olfactory disorder from public space (e.g. Cardoso, 2017; Ghertner, 2015) – but also involve state attempts to actively create or promote new sensory experiences by adding new elements, such as light (Edensor, 2015). As Mónica Degen (2014: 92, 93) argues, ‘the management and organisation of urban atmospheres is of crucial importance in contemporary urban policy … the senses have been consciously adapted, manipulated and framed to market and brand urban places’.…”

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What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation

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The emergent field of ‘sensory urbanism’ studies how socio-spatial boundaries are policed through sensorial means. Such studies have tended to focus on either formal policies that seek to control territories and populations through a governance of the senses, or on more everyday micro-politics of exclusion where conflicts are articulated in a sensory form. This article seeks to extend this work by concentrating on contexts where people deliberately seek out sensory experiences that disturb their own physical sense of comfort and belonging. While engagement across lines of sensorial difference may often be antagonistic, we argue for a more nuanced exploration of sense disruption that attends to the complex political potential of sensory urbanism. Specifically, we focus on the politics of sensation in tours of low-income urban areas. Tourists enter these areas to immerse themselves in a different environment, to be moved by urban deprivation and to feel its affective force. What embodied experiences do tourists and residents associate with urban poverty? How do guides mobilise these sensations in tourism encounters, and what is their potential to disrupt established hierarchies of socio-spatial value? Drawing on a collaborative research project in Kingston, Mexico City, New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro, the article explores how tours offer tourists a sense of what poverty feels like. Experiencing these neighbourhoods in an intimate, embodied fashion often allows tourists to feel empathy and solidarity, yet these feelings are balanced by a sense of discomfort and distance, reminding tourists in a visceral way that they do not belong.

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The Politics of Noise Control in São Paulo

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Sensing insecurity as skill: Urban violence and the politics of sensorial enskilment

Sensing insecurity as skill: Urban violence and the politics of sensorial enskilment

A Quantitative Method for Prediction of Environmental Aspects in Construction Sites of Residential Buildings

What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation

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