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  • Introduction - A Common Space to Enjoy

  • Shawn William Miller, Brigham Young University, Utah
  • Book:
    The Street Is Ours
    Published online:
    30 July 2018
    Print publication:
    02 August 2018, pp 1-20

  • Summary

    The book's major themes emphasize an approach to the street as a space with multiple, competing utilities that have experienced substantial transformations. Briefly, we describe what the street has meant to Rio's urban residents, and what it has become. Streets are conceived as a commons, a unique network of spaces open to all that in a sense replaced the rural commons that were being enclosed and privatized as rural peoples and former slaves migrated toward the city. The street as the definitive urban space is about the only commons in signficant expansion in the 20th century. However, the car, due to its size and permanence on public spaces, forcibly changed physical access to the street and the choices in how residents might use it. We address valid concerns about the place of nostalgia in describing past places, note more recent activism in reclaiming the street from motordom’s near monopoly, and confess an interest in history’s role in informing current policy choices about the possibilities of public spaces.

  • 1 - Systems Circulatory before the Wheel

  • Shawn William Miller, Brigham Young University, Utah
  • Book:
    The Street Is Ours
    Published online:
    30 July 2018
    Print publication:
    02 August 2018, pp 21-63
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    The traditional, pre-automotive street was perceived as a natural commons, available not only to all people but to nearly all uses, within the law. Brazilians did not think of their streets as cultural productions, but rather as a network of nature's remnant crisscrossing the city's architecture. Movement, while an essential element of the street's utility, only supported the street's main functions, which were access and exchange. The street's ecological functions are compared to that of the human bloodstream in all its complexity. Colonial planners used blocks, not streets, as their primary design element. Streets were intentionally left vacant, but they were not constructed. They were unimproved, often unpaved, filled with soil and vegetation. Still, despite their raw nature, they were regulated, although only with great difficulty. Streets played an essential role in community construction, and we outline some of these activities and behaviors, from gossiping to peddling. Noise and sound, including music, were essential building blocks of community, and we emphasize in particular the street’s role as the primary place of gainful employment in the city.

  • LAS volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 3 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 August 2018, pp. f1-f5
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    August 2018
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  • LAS volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 3 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 August 2018, pp. b1-b3
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    August 2018
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