Pobreza Urbana

by Milton Santos

Este livro, publicado pela primeira vez por ocasião do "Seminário Nacional sobre Pobreza Urbana e Desenvolvimento", que ocorreu em Recife, de 4 a 7 de dezembro de 1978, constitui-se num relevante documento do período em que Milton Santos retorna, após longo exílio, à cena intelectual do país. Nesta obra, o autor desvenda processos responsáveis pela generalização da pobreza na escala mundial, ao mesmo tempo em que destaca a singularidade da experiência histórica das sociedades periféricas.

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Milton Santos was a Brazilian geographer.

Milton changed his world, by studying and teaching, onto an impressive path. He studied and he taught in Europe, America and Africa. He turned the painful exile that the military dictatorship imposed on him for thirteen years into benefits. Milton Santos wrote more than forty books in several languages; his work became a reference for all those who intend to understand in a critical way the current world. He was such an optimistic thinker, before anything else, that he got to distinguish the new from the innovative, concepts that he radically differentiated.

A serious and combative geographer, he didn't spare anyone of severe criticism -- politicians, intellectuals, department friends, and even the more faithful students. Gray hair appeared in his last years, but the professor would always appear in long-sleeve shirts and red tie, dressed with the same seriousness with which he worked with knowledge.

Some of his books include "Por Uma Geografia Nova" (1978) and "A Natureza do Espaço" (1996). His work "O Espaço Dividido" is considered a geography classic: in it Santos develops a theory on urban development in underdeveloped countries.

Milton Santos won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize, which is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize, and it is considered and colloquially called the Nobel prize for geography.

Reviews

[Filipe Moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ótimo livro introdutório sobre o conceito de circuito superior e de circuito inferior. Santos questiona o conceito de pobreza, expondo as linhas conceituais abstratas e etnocêntricas e as formas de solucioná-la (desenvolvimento). Para contrapor tais visões, ele estuda a pobreza por meio da realidade do sistema capitalista nas cidades do chamado Terceiro Mundo.

[Nael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leitura um pouco rebuscada, porém cheia de detalhes surpreendentes sobre a origem, manutenção e definições em torno da pobreza urbana.