Júlio Celso Borello Vargas

Citation:

Rocha, C. M. F., & Vargas J. C. B. (2018).  Mobilidade urbana saudável e segregação socioespacial: desafios da aliança entre pesquisa e participação comunitária. 20, 10., Number 02

Abstract:

Healthy urban mobility is the concept that deals with how the physical structure of cities affect the mobility of the population and how it relates to collective health and well-being. The article seeks to share the experience of conducting a research on healthy urban mobility in the Cruzeiro Region in Porto Alegre (RS-Brazil) and the experiences and reflections raised during the survey. In order to make viable the large-scale survey in the territory, it became necessary the researchers' partnership with the local population, a relationship that caused tensions and adaptations. The text provides an analytical description of the survey steps, using the field diary and the research report as sources of information. As a result, the importance of community participation in association with academic research in the search for social transformations is highlighted, even though symbolic barriers must be overcomed. We hope, with this report, to share the lessons learned, which show mobility limitations faced by low-income residents and the challenge of transposing social and spatial segregation in large urban centers.

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