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University Lecturer
01 April 2019 - 01 August 2020
University Educator/Researcher
01 January 2003 - 01 March 2006
Associated Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Geography at the Department of Geography of the Federal University of Bahia - Brazil, since 2006. Geographer, Master and Doctor in Geography by the State University of São Paulo (UNESP/Rio Claro), with Master and Doctorate recognized by the University of Porto, Portugal. Member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and Natura Network (Group Urban Informality & Innovation for Resilient Futures).
Through a dialectical approach, building a thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis, our goal in this article is to discuss the implementation of the Parque Augusta, in the center of São Paulo, Brazil. For years, an organized social movement struggled with the municipality and real estate developers for the protection of the park and its green area. The demanded and desired park, collectively designed and managed, physically structured on the principles of the nature-based solutions (NBS), should represent a victory. However, in a capitalist urban space, the future park has already been appropriated in the real estate market to enhance development values and to increase the density of its environs with the construction of new skyscrapers. In a city tagging its climate actions using NBS concepts, the project in implementation by the municipality has fewer NBS elements than the co-designed with citizens participation. Here we present the narratives of the park creation and some indicators about its appropriation, based on land use and real estate market prices. The theoretical critical perspective was fundamental to reveal the contradictions within the park construction, called attention to the consideration of the surrounding area in greening projects and promoted a synthesis towards the universalization of the right to nature in the city.
Wendel Baumgartner. Parque Augusta (São Paulo/Brazil): From the Struggles of a Social Movement to Its Appropriation in the Real Estate Market and the Right to Nature in the City. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5150 .
AMA StyleWendel Baumgartner. Parque Augusta (São Paulo/Brazil): From the Struggles of a Social Movement to Its Appropriation in the Real Estate Market and the Right to Nature in the City. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5150.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWendel Baumgartner. 2021. "Parque Augusta (São Paulo/Brazil): From the Struggles of a Social Movement to Its Appropriation in the Real Estate Market and the Right to Nature in the City." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5150.
Wendel Henrique Baumgartner; Eberhard Rothfuß. Creative Inequality in the Mid-sized University City. Socio-spatial Reflections on the Brazilian Rural–Urban Interface: The Case of Cachoeira. Inequalities in Creative Cities 2016, 217 -237.
AMA StyleWendel Henrique Baumgartner, Eberhard Rothfuß. Creative Inequality in the Mid-sized University City. Socio-spatial Reflections on the Brazilian Rural–Urban Interface: The Case of Cachoeira. Inequalities in Creative Cities. 2016; ():217-237.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWendel Henrique Baumgartner; Eberhard Rothfuß. 2016. "Creative Inequality in the Mid-sized University City. Socio-spatial Reflections on the Brazilian Rural–Urban Interface: The Case of Cachoeira." Inequalities in Creative Cities , no. : 217-237.