THE SCHOOL’S PLACE IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE: AN URBAN APPROACH ON NEIGHBORHOOD UNITS, URBAN SEGREGATION AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN BRASILIA
City and school, Neighborhood Unit, Brasilia, Neighborhood Effect, Public schools, socio-spatial segregation.
This thesis aims to understand the place of the school in the urban landscape, in addition to its relations with the processes of socio-spatial and school segregation and school segmentation. The research investigates the role of public school in the urban landscape and how urban design choices related to the Neighborhood Unit paradigm affect the relationships between city, neighborhood, street and school. To do so, we adopted as a case study, and thread of work, the city of Brasilia. This research uses a mixed methodology, qualitative and quantitative, combining: 1) an iconographic historical analysis of the Neighborhood Units, applied in the Plano Pilito, and its influence on the positioning of public teaching equipment in other neighborhoods of the city; and, also, 2) a mapping of the daily flow of students from the public school system of Brasilia, through the analysis of the enrollment register of SEEDF. The focus is on the study of the urban phenomenon of student flows as a form of occupation of public spaces, in the search to identify the relationships between city, urban landscape, socio-spatial and school segregation and school segmentation, studies about the concept, sociology of education, neighborhood effect.