JANE VICTAL is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at PUC-Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD in Urban and Environmental Structures at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She teaches undergraduate classes on Architecture and Urban Applied Sociolog
...MoreJANE VICTAL is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at PUC-Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD in Urban and Environmental Structures at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She teaches undergraduate classes on Architecture and Urban Applied Sociology, City History and Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and graduate classes on Urban Studies, Culture and Contemporary Urbanism. She is associated to the History of Cities: Territorial Occupation and Urban Ideologies, a research group certified by CNPq and to the History of Urban Though research thematic line. In her current research, she investigates the Brazilian cultural landscape and the sense of place from multidisciplinary studies in different space-time contexts having interests on: identity, memory, meaning and culture.
As a visiting professor at King’s Brazil Institute, she developed a research on processes of urbanization as cultural phenomenon and as results of urban regeneration projects with focus on meaning of the built environment. The approach includes the presence of violent acts in the course of events forming the sense of place and changes on urban morphology due to public policy, artistic productions and popular manifestations.
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