“Beira Trilhos”: The Implementation
of the Right to Housing and the City
by an Extension Project in Southern
Brazil
Marcos Antonio Leite Frandoloso and Eduardo Nischespois Scorsatto
1 Introduction and Characterization of “Beira Trilhos”
Territory
The scope of the present work comprises conceptualizing the right to the city by
questioning the city itself, its rights and notions that are constantly restructuring and
redefining themselves. The main challenge of the project developed by the University
of Passo Fundo—UPF—is to understand such flows, from a new perspective, that
states no one ever sees the city from the outside, or in a stagnant state of time. On
the contrary, the process of analysing is by itself a movement that enters city space
in its mobility and immobility, subjectivities and meanings (Frandoloso et al. 2019a;
b). According to Harvey (2013), “knowing what kind of city we want is a question
that cannot be dissociated from knowing what kind of social ties, relationships with
nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we want”.
These assumptions are directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) to “end poverty and hunger worldwide; fight inequalities within and between
countries; build peaceful, fair and inclusive societies; protect human rights, promote
gender equality and women’s empowerment as well as to ensure long-lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources by 2030”. The United Nations takes into
account the different levels of development, national and local capacities by creating
M. A. L. Frandoloso (B)
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo—RS, BR 285
Campus I, Bairro São José, Brazil
e-mail: frandoloso@upf.br
E. N. Scorsatto
Architecture and Urbanism Course, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo—RS BR 285
Campus I, Bairro São José, Brazil
e-mail: enscorsatto@gmail.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_26
393
of the Right to Housing and the City
by an Extension Project in Southern
Brazil
Marcos Antonio Leite Frandoloso and Eduardo Nischespois Scorsatto
1 Introduction and Characterization of “Beira Trilhos”
Territory
The scope of the present work comprises conceptualizing the right to the city by
questioning the city itself, its rights and notions that are constantly restructuring and
redefining themselves. The main challenge of the project developed by the University
of Passo Fundo—UPF—is to understand such flows, from a new perspective, that
states no one ever sees the city from the outside, or in a stagnant state of time. On
the contrary, the process of analysing is by itself a movement that enters city space
in its mobility and immobility, subjectivities and meanings (Frandoloso et al. 2019a;
b). According to Harvey (2013), “knowing what kind of city we want is a question
that cannot be dissociated from knowing what kind of social ties, relationships with
nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we want”.
These assumptions are directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) to “end poverty and hunger worldwide; fight inequalities within and between
countries; build peaceful, fair and inclusive societies; protect human rights, promote
gender equality and women’s empowerment as well as to ensure long-lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources by 2030”. The United Nations takes into
account the different levels of development, national and local capacities by creating
M. A. L. Frandoloso (B)
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo—RS, BR 285
Campus I, Bairro São José, Brazil
e-mail: frandoloso@upf.br
E. N. Scorsatto
Architecture and Urbanism Course, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo—RS BR 285
Campus I, Bairro São José, Brazil
e-mail: enscorsatto@gmail.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_26
393