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Salvador: The Struggle for Dialogue Within a Heritage City
Author(s) -
Ekerman Sergio
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2052
Subject(s) - portuguese , politics , colonialism , capital (architecture) , political science , right to the city , capital city , urban planning , inequality , sociology , public administration , economic history , geography , history , law , economic geography , archaeology , civil engineering , engineering , mathematical analysis , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics
Founded by the Portuguese in the mid‐16th century as the colonial capital of Brazil, Salvador da Bahia on the northeast coast retains to this day a unique historical centre. Now a burgeoning metropolis, Salvador is also the country's third largest city with all the social, political and infrastructure problems and inequalities that accompany explosive urban growth. Sergio Ekerman , an architect and professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, describes how a lack of political will and consensus between private and public stakeholders is failing to produce the dialogue necessary for coherent urban development.