São Paulo Noir
Title | São Paulo Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa Barbara |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1617756490 |
This anthology of noir fiction set in São Paulo, Brazil, “might be the strongest entry yet in the long-running and globe-spanning Akashic Noir series” (San Francisco Book Review). Once known as the Land of Mist, São Paulo is now a dense, diverse, and globalized metropolis. It is the most populous city in the Americas, the Portuguese-speaking world, and the southern hemisphere—with some of the worst traffic on the planet. From its gleaming skyscrapers to its historic downtown and its rough, drug-infested outskirts, this unique anthology explores a truly unique city with “a timely feel, giving noir a host of feminine faces” (Kirkus). São Paulo Noir includes fourteen brand-new stories by Tony Bellotto, Olivia Maia, Marcelino Freire, Beatriz Bracher & Maria S. Carvalhosa, Fernando Bonassi, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Marçal Aquino, Jô Soares, Mario Prata, Ferréz, Vanessa Barbara, Ilana Casoy, and Drauzio Varella.
Access for All
Title | Access for All PDF eBook |
Author | Andres Lepik |
Publisher | Park Publishing (WI) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9783038601630 |
As one of the worlds megacities, São Paulo has for decades seen an investment in architectural infrastructures that attempt to mitigate its open space shortages as well as fulfill the constant need for recreational, cultural, and sports programs. These buildings and open spaces - which can be public, semi-public, or privately-owned - arguably attempt to create inclusive places for urban society. This exhibition catalogue presents projects at different scales, focusing on their programmatic characteristics rather than the formal qualities usually emphasized in scholarship on Brazilian architecture. While many cities around the world are still chasing the so-called "Bilbao Effect" - the creation of a monofunctional "signature" architectural work by a famous architect that can attract tourism - this exhibition catalogue advocates for architectural infrastructure that adds programs of different natures, and that are aimed at social sustainability for local citizens. This aspect of urban growth in São Paulo - quite a vertical and densely-populated city; a city of great resources and also tremendous poverty; a city with high crime rates; a city with severe traffic issues; a city with public-health problems - illustrates how architecture and infrastructure can contribute to a city's urban development in multiple ways.
Blacks & Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988
Title | Blacks & Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 PDF eBook |
Author | George Reid Andrews |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780299131043 |
In Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction - past and present - between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.
Time Out São Paulo
Title | Time Out São Paulo PDF eBook |
Author | Editors of Time Out |
Publisher | Time Out Guides |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1846701260 |
São Paulo
Title | São Paulo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UN-HABITAT |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9211322146 |
"Data prepared by the Sao Paulo-based Fundacao Sistema Estadual de Analise de Dados (SEADE) in collaboration with UN-HABITAT"--T.p. verso.
Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Title | Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | Mauricio A. Font |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2010-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0739147501 |
This volume examines the dynamism of the São Paulo region and its coffee industry and evolution since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Targeting key players such as large entrepreneurial coffee landlords and immigrant settlers, this book addresses the process of transformation and segmentation in São Paulo and Brazil.
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo
Title | Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo PDF eBook |
Author | Misha Klein |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813043549 |
Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and to the Hebraica, the world’s largest Jewish athletic and social club. Jewish identity is rooted in layered experiences of historical and contemporary dispersal and border crossings. Brazil is famously tolerant of difference but less understanding of longings for elsewhere. Celebrating both Carnival and the High Holidays is but one example of how Jews in São Paulo hold themselves together as a community in the face of the forces of assimilation. Misha Klein’s fascinating ethnography reveals the complex intertwining of Jewish and Brazilian life and identity.