Diagonal and Insper are proud to announce the launch of the Social Urbanism Guide, a non-academic manual that aims to support leaders of vulnerable territories and public managers to build more inclusive cities, promoting the requalification of these territories in an integrated, continuous and transformative way.
The Guide is an initiative of Insper's Social Urbanism Center and Diagonal, which has more than three decades of practical experience in the urbanization of slums and the integrated management of vulnerable territories.
Organized by urban planner and professor Carlos Leite, coordinator of the laboratory's Social Urbanism Unit, the book is an innovative piece of material, given that there has not yet been such a wide-ranging, complete and comprehensive publication on social urbanism in the country.
Over the course of ten months, a team of experts, researchers, public managers, favela community leaders, among other professionals, worked to produce 15 chapters that delve into socio-economic and cultural dimensions, territorial issues, governance and sustainability issues, public policies, local action plans, as well as tackling innovative subjects such as "cities and children", "women and territories" and "urban health" and presenting reference cases.
The concept of social urbanism is based on the premise that interventions in areas of social vulnerability or lack of urban infrastructure should be based on a holistic understanding of their demands and needs and planned in a participatory and deliberative way with local communities. As such, it is an essential concept for the advancement of the 2030 Agenda and one that drives public authorities in partnership with civil society organizations and the population to improve indicators of sustainable development goals.
"The Guide fills the gap of a reference that combines theory and field experience. Its approach provides an unprecedented step-by-step approach that will support teams in planning interventions that directly affect communities. Diagonal has more than 32 years' experience in social management with interdisciplinary work and a humanized approach, and has shared much of its methodology for action in vulnerable territories," says Kátia Mello, co-president of Diagonal.
José Guilherme Schutzer, Diagonal's technical manager, added: "We believe that, with this guide in hand, the teams will be able to start from the same reference point for discussions that open up the way and help them make decisions about the stages that need to be planned, organized and carried out in each territorial transformation project."
Free distribution
The Social Urbanism Guide will be made available free of charge in PDF format and can be downloaded here. The aim is to democratize access, so that this content reaches the greatest number of people with the potential for social transformation.
The book is a valuable tool for community leaders, professionals and students in the fields of architecture, urbanism, civil engineering, public policy management, social assistance, among other related areas, as well as being important reading for those concerned with building fairer and more inclusive cities.
Download it now and have access to a wealth of content to help boost social impact on the outskirts of cities and promote the power of favelas.
The launch
The launch of the Social Urbanism Guide took place on March 20, 2023, in the Insper Auditorium, at an event that included an opening by Kátia Mello and Tomas Alvim, coordinator of the Arq.Futuro de Cidades at Insper, a presentation of the Social Urbanism Guide by Carlos Leite and José Guilherme Schutzer and a debate on the new challenges of social urbanism, with the participation of Carlos Mário Rodrigues (Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey / Medellin), Carmen Silva (Women and Territories Center, Arq.Futuro de Cidades do Insper), Ricardo Balestreri (Former Secretary of Citizenship of Pará and creator of the Usinas da Paz Program) and Rebecca Dantas (Social Urbanism Program in SP, São Paulo City Hall).
The event was broadcast online via Insper's channel at YouTube via this link.
D.Talks: Social Urbanism
And to continue this conversation, Diagonal invited Insper to D.Talks, a series of webinars that we use to share knowledge with the various players in the impact ecosystem and contribute to sustainable development through the dissemination of our methodology, which integrates social, economic and environmental issues in the management of territories, co-creating solutions through popular participation.
In the first webinar of 2023, Diagonal tackled the subject of Social Urbanism, presenting the case of Medellín. With the participation of Carlos Leite, the event presented the Social Urbanism Guide and Diagonal specialists Letícia Canonico and Joyce Cavalcanti presented the relationship between the topic discussed and the methodology of social work, as well as comparing projects carried out in Brazilian cities with the interventions developed in Medellín.
Check out the full webinar:
A job done by many hands
The general organization of the book was carried out by Carlos Leite and the Diagonal team was coordinated by Kátia Mello and José Guilherme Schutzer.
The chapters prepared by Diagonal were:
Chapter 3 - Local Action Plan: written by José Guilherme Schutzer, Kátia Mello and Vilma Dourado Matos Maia Gomes
Chapter 5 - Territorial dimension: written by Andressa Capriglione, Letícia Canonico, Paulo Olivato and Rodrigo Tavares
Chapter 6 - Urban sustainability dimension: written by Daniela Lira Mariz, Deise Coelho, Fabio Pereira dos Santos, José Guilherme Schutzer and Rafael Costa e Silva
Chapter 10 - Topics in forms of financing: written by Andressa Capriglione and Deise Coelho
Chapter 15 - Reference cases: the case of Ilha de Deus, written by Carolina de Queiroga Jucá and Kátia Mello; and the case of Boa Vista, written by Kátia Mello, Laís Dágola, Sandra Capriglione and Vilma Dourado Matos Maia Gomes
This project involved the participation of various areas of Insper's Arq.Futuro Cities Laboratory - Architecture and the City; City and Regulation; Housing & Real State; Urban Mobility; Women and Territories and Urban Health. In addition, on several specific topics, the collaboration of partner organizations and experts was also included, in addition to the members of the Social Urbanism Center and Diagonal: Anaclaudia Rossbach (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy); André L. Duarte (Insper); Camila Maleronka (Insper); Carlos Mario Rodriguez (Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey); Elisabete França (São Paulo City Hall); Fernanda Almeida (Clinical Territories, FTAS); Fundação Tide Setubal; Gabriela Massuda; Gareth Doherty (Harvard University Graduate School of Design); Hubert Klumpner and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou (UTT). Papanicolaou (UTT - Urban Think Thank_next, ETH Zurich); Instituto Alana; Instituto Pólis; Jorge Melguizo (Medellín); José Brakarz; Lizete M. Rubano e Vigliecca & Associados; Lucas Bueno; Lucas B. Rosin (EACH/USP); Marcus A. Y. Salusse, Juliana M. Mitkiewicz and Luiz F. C. S. Durão (Insper); Marcos Rosa (FAU-USP); Martín Motta and Mariana Poskus (CAF); Murilo Cavalcante (Recife City Hall); Nadia Somekh (CAU-BR); Observatório de Olho na Quebrada de Heliópolis; Insper's Urban Data Portal; Renato Anelli, Angélica Alvim, Andresa Marques and Antonio Fabiano Jr. (FAU-Mackenzie); Ricardo Henriques (Instituto Unibanco); Roland Krebs and Markus Tomaselli (Urban Design Lab, Technical University of Vienna); Sérgio Magalhães (FAU-UFRJ); Simone Gatti (WRI Brasil); TETO Brasil; Vera Luz (PUC-Campinas).
