Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso

Full Professor Federal University of Pará

EDUCATION

Architect and Urbanist (UFPA/1990); Master Urban Planning (UnB/1994); PhD Architecture (Oxford Brookes University/2002).

Scopus Publications

What is the urban in contemporary Amazon? Implications for health surveillance in the biome
Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso, Ana Paula dal’Asta, and Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)



Beyond formal urban policies: resilient periurban alternative practices in the Amazon
Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso, Thales Barroso Miranda, José Júlio Ferreira Lima, and Elis Tayná Almeida Brazil
Elsevier



Foreword: Rethinking resilience practices before and after the Covid-19 crisis
Giulia Pesaro, Angela Colucci, Elis Tayná Almeida Brazil, Thales Barroso Miranda, C.S. Dechamma, Juan del Río, Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso, José Júlio Ferreira Lima, Salvador Garrido Soler, Cristian Moyano Fernández,et al.
Elsevier



Urban Growth and Its Implications for Weather and Climate in the Metropolitan Region of Belém do Pará




Mismatches between extended urbanization and everyday socioenvironmental conflicts in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso, Kamila Diniz Oliveira, and Taynara Do Vale Gomes Pinho
Editora de Livros IABS
This article discusses how Global North environmental concerns would be applicable to the contemporary Global South urbanization - a zone of overexploitation of natural resources and imposition of homogenizing spatial patterns. The brand-new Metropolitan Region of Santarém (MRS), located in the Brazilian Amazon, is taken as a case study to demonstrate that reeditions of power and social hierarchy result in institutional violence and creation of an extensive urban tissue, where original occupation and spatial structures linked to the production of commodities for export co-exist. MRS demands the understanding of Global North and South connections and also of city and rural linkages to allow the understanding of a new urban that encompasses it all.


Urban morphology of amazonian cities: The experience of the Amazon Cities Research Group of Federal University of Pará
Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso, José Júlio Ferreira Lima, Juliano Pamplona Ximenes Ponte, Raul da Silva Ventura Neto, and Roberta Menezes Rodrigues
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Resumo O artigo apresenta a experiência do Grupo de Pesquisa Cidades na Amazônia, da Universidade Federal do Pará, de aplicação de métodos e técnicas desenvolvidos no âmbito das Escolas de Morfologia Urbana na compreensão e no planejamento das cidades amazônicas. O texto apresenta o contexto de investigação, com base nos antecedentes históricos das ocupações urbana e regional, para caracterizar sobretudo a natureza híbrida da urbanização e da produção da cidade no contexto periférico e de fronteira de exploração de recursos naturais da Amazônia brasileira. Os resultados de pesquisa foram agrupados em blocos de acordo com sua aderência às categorias de análise e princípios metodológicos das principais escolas de morfologia europeias, exemplificando as circunstâncias de difusão e adaptação de categorias histórico-geográficas e tipológicas ao estudo das cidades da Amazônia Oriental. Destacam-se as variações construídas para a caracterização e a análise da forma dessas cidades, tendo em vista o subsídio às políticas públicas e o avanço da pesquisa em morfologia urbana na região Norte do Brasil e em contextos semelhantes no planeta.


Elements of coviability in the agribusiness of palm oil in the eastern Amazon
Maria Cristina Maneschy, Valente José Matlaba, Jorge Filipe Dos Santos, and Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso
Springer International Publishing
This work analyzes the venture of growing oil palm trees in northeast Para, emphasizing the social position of rural communities, with the coviability perspective between environmental and social systems. Most studies about the development of this sector in the Amazon region lack an integrated analysis. The socioeconomic data showed that the palm fruit producer municipalities concentrate a high proportion of rural populations, and are significantly handicapped in terms of the Social Progress Index. However, the increase of palm fruit production does not seem to have harmed food production and agricultural diversity, with the agriculture and livestock sector as the main absorber of labor. The native forest is reduced and fragmented, but palm oil production is not the driver of deforestation in the region. The production of smallholder farmers counterbalances the existence of large continuous areas of monoculture. The capacity of rural areas to generate income with palm oil reduces the pressure of communities on the forest. This evidence demonstrates that the partnership between the smallholder farmers and the palm oil agribusiness is favorable for the environmental viability of this economic activity in this region. The social and institutional engagements can generate better adaptive capacity of palm oil production with environmental and social constraints, promoting coviability.


Santarém: The starting (or returning) point to the urban-utopia
Taynara do Vale Gomes and Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Resumo Este artigo discute o progressivo descolamento observado entre cidade, urbano, rural e natureza em contexto amazônico. Partiu-se da geo-história, abordagem lefebvriana de análise da formação espacial, do sítio de Santarém (PA) e adjacências, para explicitar a natureza híbrida de um tecido urbano extensivo, formado por tipologias urbanas descontínuas (cidade e vilas), periurbanas (comunidades e assentamentos) e rurais (campo de soja, floresta e comunidades extrativistas), segundo arranjos socioespaciais herdeiros de diferentes matrizes culturais. A partir da revisão de literatura, da análise de cartografia histórica e de dados digitais, observa-se que o urbano, orientado por processos globais e pelo interesse econômico, nega e desestrutura territórios, nos quais a sociobiodiversidade e as práticas desenvolvidas ao longo dos séculos são portadoras de potencial reconciliação entre urbano e natureza, bem como valiosas em contexto de mudanças climáticas. O estudo detalha a análise para a mancha urbana da cidade de Santarém, assumida como um amálgama que espelha a diversidade socioespacial da região e que melhor ilustra a forma como a concepção hegemônica de cidade, aplicada ao urbano periférico amazônico, tem distanciado Santarém do potencial de expressar o urbano utopia, o qual será capaz de resgatar a indissociabilidade de pessoas, biodiversidade, solo e água, que já vem sendo manifestada há séculos na Amazônia.


Urban tropical forest: Where nature and human settlements are assets for overcoming dependency, but how can urbanisation theories identify these potentials?
Ana Claudia Cardoso, Harley Silva, Ana Carolina Melo, and Danilo Araújo
Springer International Publishing
This paper focuses on the extensive urbanisation of the Eastern Amazon, where human settlements date back to an era when total cooperation existed between man and nature, a time when land, water, forest and people were perceived as inseparable parts of the whole. However, this harmonious situation has ceased to exist following several episodes of colonisation and modernisation. During the last initiative to integrate the region with the rest of the country, it was classified under the social divisions of Brazilian labour as agrarian and suitable for the mineral extraction industry. Furthermore, the recent overlap between the interests of privately owned global companies and federal investments in logistics, and of the pattern of Portuguese colonisation, has led to a process of hybrid urbanisation. The historical pattern of population dispersion has also suffered modifications whereby connections have been established that link previously isolated settlements to national centres and global metropolises. Such practices have acted against all current data on climate change and have disrespected nature and the environment to such an extent that selective modernization and its reverse, informal occupation, have increased the spread of deforestation, pollution, the siltation of rivers and the reduction of surface water volumes. This article demonstrates how these transformations have been responsible for the exclusion of those groups forced onto the margins of modernisation: people born in the region who depend on the biophysical base for their livelihood, including indigenous peoples, caboclos (the offspring of indigenous and Portuguese peoples), peasants and traditional communities who live in rural areas or were pushed into urban areas once the countryside had been restructured. The article also seeks to expose local resistance to this process, thereby revealing how extensive urbanisation may evolve from mere economic integration towards comprehensive urbanisation, capable of creating new forms of citizenship and a respect for nature, thereby transforming it into the extensive naturalisation of the urban.


Introduction
Philipp Horn, Ana Claudia Cardoso, and Paola Alfaro d’Alençon
Springer International Publishing



Open spaces: Windows for ecological urbanism in the Western Amazon
Louise Barbalho Pontes and Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Abstract The Brazilian Amazon has provoked preservationist discussions for decades, and although there has been a breakthrough in the recognition of the role of traditional populations for the biome maintenance, most strategies adopted in the country privileged the region’s scale, without concern about local scale, particularly features of cities and of their inhabitants. The hypothesis that is pursued in this article is that the space of Western Amazonian frontier should offer innovative potential for urbanization solutions, especially in the treatment of open spaces. It also goes to prove that by not fully having structured its territory it could learn from human history, science framework, and from traditional knowledge. Assuming that urbanization process across this region takes place in a single space-time, this paper first approaches the dichotomy between city and nature built over time to deconstruct it, considering contemporary city’s emerging spatiality and possible evolution scenarios. Marabá was adopted as case study, a city located between states and biomes, in the economic frontier circumstances of Western Amazonian. The research shows that from the existing open spaces raise an encouragement to reconcile urbanism and ecology.


The Belem Metropolis and its centrality in the Brazilian Eastern Amazonia
Ana Cardoso, Danilo Fernandes, Ana Bastos, and Cleidianne Sousa
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
palavras-chave | metropolizacao, rede urbana, cidades amazonicas. abstract | In the literature, there is an extensive discussion on cities demetropolitaniza- tion or metropolization and their role across their area of influence. This study discusses these issues taking as a subject the Metropolitan Region of Belem (rmb), capital of Para State, Brazilian Amazon. It recovers the history of the territorial development of Belem over almost 400 years, and using economic data and official former studies on Brazilian urban network, this paper seeks to demonstrate the coexistence of two dynamics in rmb. One associated to its role as the prime city within the Amazon network until the mid- twentieth century, and another that reveals the incorporation of the region to the industrial capitalist dynamics of Brazil after the 1950s. We may say that despite of the ratio decreased in the State' gdp, rmb's metropolitan expansion and services specialization shows that it has actually assumed new functions and maintains the characteristics of a regional metropolis.


A visual-analytics system for railway safety management
Wallace P. Lira, Ronnie Alves, Jean M.R. Costa, Gustavo Pessin, Lilyan Galvao, Ana C. Cardoso, and Cleidson R.B. de Souza
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The working environment of railways is challenging and complex and often involves high-risk operations. These operations affect both the company staff and inhabitants of the towns and cities alongside the railway lines. To reduce the employees' and public's exposure to risk, railway companies adopt strategies involving trained safety personnel, advanced forms of technology, and special work processes. Nevertheless, unfortunate incidents still occur. To assist railway safety management, researchers developed a visual-analytics system. Using a data analytics workflow, it compiles an incident risk index that processes information about railway incidents. It displays the index on a geographical map, together with socioeconomic information about the associated towns and cities. Feedback on this system suggests that safety engineers and experts can use it to make and communicate decisions.


Territorial occupation in eastern Brazilian Amazon - how small cities express regional dynamics




Urban design in Western Amazonian cities - The case of Marabá
Ana Cláudia Cardoso
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
This article presents the circumstances of the urbanization processes some Brazilian Eastern Amazonian cities have undergone, and discusses official investments to improve the urban configuration of Marabá as opportunities to settle new paradigms for urban design and assure mechanisms of urban control. It also offers explanations for the diversity these cities display as compared to other Brazilian cities with regard to their strong dependence on external economic processes and their relationship with a unique environment. A set of interventions from both the federal and state governments in Marabá is used to illustrate recent struggles between mechanisms of participatory management and traditional forces that represent the interests of the elites, which impose on our cities limitations to a more sustainable development mode.


Life chances and modern poverty
Ana Cláudia Cardoso
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
This paper aims to introduce the concept of life chances and to explore its constitutive elements, – entitlement, provision and ligature as a framework for the analysis of life chances of informal settlements' inhabitants. It evolves from a PhD research, which had informal settlements in Belém, Brazil as case studies. This was built upon the concept of life chances, defined by Dahrendorf as a person's long-term prospects, brought about by choices between available options and according to one's social objectives. The concept is constituted of three elements, entitlements (lawful means of access), provision (material supply) and ligatures (all types of human motivation). The application of the theoretical concept of life chances, to the context of informal settlements was made possible through the association between the concept of life chances and the discussion about modern poverty, resulting in an alternative approach to the understanding of informal settlements, in which the perspective of inhabitants, and the potentials offered by legal rights are incorporated to the usual approach of land and housing provision.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

The Amazon urban weft: a methodological proposal for recognizing a territory of possibilities
RM Ribeiro, AEDM Ferreira, ACD Cardoso, AMV Monteiro, AP Dal’Asta, ...
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais 26, e202433pt 2025



Morphological analysis as a tool for socio-environmental reparation: contributions from the Amazon context
ACD Cardoso
Urban Morphology 28 (2), 117-131 2024



Cidades jardim do passado: lies da herana morfolgica dos povos indgenas
G Pinho, A Cardoso, K Oliveira
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 12 (1) 2024



7 Workshop PNUM: Belm e Macap, 2023
ACD Cardoso
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 12 (1) 2024



A compreenso morfolgica de assentamentos humanos em contexto perifricos: epistemologia, forma e relaes
KD Oliveira, ACD Cardoso, FMC da Silva Santos
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 12 (2) 2024



Editorial PNUM 2024
AC Cardoso, K Oliveira, A Lima
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 12 (2) 2024



Tempos de encontros, reencontros e novos caminhos
J Miyamoto, C Pescatori, AC Cardoso, R Shereen
Revista Thsis 9 (18) 2024



A trama urbana amaznica: proposta metodolgica para reconhecimento de um territrio de possibilidades
RM Ribeiro, AEDM Ferreira, ACD Cardoso, AMV Monteiro, AP Dal’Asta, ...
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais 26, e202433pt 2024



INVESTIGAO DE POTENCIAIS DE CONSTITUIO DE PAISAGENS FUNCIONAIS NA REA DE EXPANSO DE BELM1
SEMB Alves, TF Carvalho, GCCM Lima, VS da Costa
Parano 16 (34), 1-27 2023



What is the urban in contemporary Amazon? Implications for health surveillance in the biome
ACD Cardoso, AP dal’Asta, AMV Monteiro
Cadernos de Sade Pblica 39, e00129723 2023



O que o urbano na Amaznia contempornea? Implicaes para a vigilncia em sade no bioma
ACD Cardoso, AP dal’Asta, AMV Monteiro
Cadernos de Sade Pblica 39, e00129723 2023



Cinturas perifricas na periferia do capitalismo: os casos de Belm e Manaus
AC Cardoso, L Castro, K Oliveira
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 11 (1) 2023



O modelo de cidade moderna: anlise da forma dos planos da Nova Marab/PA
KD Oliveira, ACD Cardoso, APC Lima, L Castro
Paisagens Hbridas 3 (1), 64-91 2023



Eviction cycles in Belm (PA): the Tucunduba River Basin and the reproduction of precariousness
ACM Tavares, ACD Cardoso
revista brasileira de estudos urbanos e regionais 25, e202305pt 2023



Ciclos de remoes em Belm (PA): a Bacia do Tucunduba ea reproduo da precariedade
ACM Tavares, ACD Cardoso
revista brasileira de estudos urbanos e regionais 25, e202305pt 2023



Abordagens e metodologias nos processos participativos: por um ensino de arquitetura e urbanismo capaz de acolher e preservar
B VIEIRA, ANAC CARDOSO
Paisagem e Ambiente 34 (52) 2023



A questo urbana nos projetos em disputa para uma bioeconomia da Amaznia contempornea
DA Fernandes, ACD Cardoso, H Silva, E Bartoli, UEA Parintins, ...
ENCONTRO NACIONAL DA ASSOCIAO NACIONAL DE PS-GRADUAO E PESQUISA EM 2023



Redes de mdia cvica na Amaznia e a contra-hegemonia digital
AHB Cavalcante, ACD Cardoso
Revista V! RUS 1 (25) 2022



Crescimento urbano e suas implicaes para o tempo e clima da regio metropolitana de Belm do Par
BC Moraes, GRC Sodr, ACD Cardoso, AR da Silva Jnior
Revista Brasileira de Geografia Fsica 15 (04), 2045-2060 2022



Contra-cartografias de povos tradicionais nas mtrpoles paraenses: repertrios para um urbano amaznico plural
ACD Cardoso, M do Socorro Amoras, S Gayoso, H Silva
NAU Social 13 (24), 937-953 2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Tipologias e padres de ocupao urbana na Amaznia Oriental: para que e para quem
ACD Cardoso, JJF Lima
O rural e o urbano na Amaznia: diferentes olhares em perspectivas. Belm 2006
Citations: 87



A evoluo urbana de Belm: trajetria de ambiguidades e conflitos socioambientais
ACD Cardoso, RSV Neto
Cadernos Metrpole 15 (29), 55-75 2013
Citations: 62



O espao alternativo: vida e forma urbana nas baixadas de Belm
ACD Cardoso
Editora Universitria UFPA 2007
Citations: 59



Santarm (PA): um caso de espao metropolitano sob mltiplas determinaes
TV Gomes, ACD Cardoso, HS Coelho, KD Oliveira
Cadernos Metrpole 19 (40), 891-918 2017
Citations: 45



A influncia do governo federal sobre cidades na Amaznia: os casos de Marab e Medicilndia
ACD Cardoso, JJF Lima
Novos cadernos NAEA 2009
Citations: 45



O urbano contemporneo na fronteira de expanso do capital: padres de transformaes espaciais em seis cidades do Par, Brasil
ACD Cardoso, AC de Melo, T do Vale Gomes
Revista de Morfologia Urbana 4 (1), 5-28 2016
Citations: 31



A estrutura socioespacial da regio metropolitana de Belm: de 1990 a 2000
ACD Cardoso, JJF Lima, LFDA Sena, RBN SANTOS, SHR Cruz
2007
Citations: 26



Cana dos Carajs: um laboratrio sobre as circunstncias da urbanizao, na periferia global e no alvorecer do sculo XXI
ACD Cardoso, LS Cndido, ACC Melo
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais 20, 121-140 2018
Citations: 25



Belm: transformaes na ordem urbana
LC Editora
Letra Capital 2015
Citations: 22



The alternative space: informal settlements and life chances in Belm, Brazil
ACD Cardoso
Oxford Brookes University 2002
Citations: 22



Morfologia urbana das cidades amaznicas: a experincia do Grupo de Pesquisa Cidades na Amaznia da Universidade Federal do Par
ACD Cardoso, JJF Lima, JPX Ponte, RS Ventura, RM Rodrigues
urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gesto Urbana 12, e20190275 2020
Citations: 18



O rural e o urbano na Amaznia. diferentes olhares e perspectivas
ACD Cardodo
O rural e o urbano na Amaznia. diferentes olhares e perspectivas, 215-215 2006
Citations: 17



A Metrpole Belm e sua centralidade na Amaznia oriental Brasileira
A Cardoso, D Fernandes, A Bastos, C Sousa
Eure (Santiago) 41 (124), 201-223 2015
Citations: 16



Que contribuies viro de Amaznia brasileira para o urbanismo do sculo XXI?
AC Cardoso
Revista Thsis 6 (11) 2021
Citations: 15



Santarm: o ponto de partida para o (ou de retorno) urbano utopia
TV Gomes, ACD Cardoso
urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gesto Urbana 11, e20170219 2019
Citations: 15



Urban tropical forest: where nature and human settlements are assets for overcoming dependency, but how can urbanisation theories identify these potentials?
AC Cardoso, H Silva, AC Melo, D Arajo
Emerging Urban Spaces: A Planetary Perspective, 177-199 2018
Citations: 15



A visual-analytics system for railway safety management
WP Lira, R Alves, JMR Costa, G Pessin, L Galvao, AC Cardoso, ...
IEEE computer graphics and applications 34 (5), 52-57 2014
Citations: 15



Consideraes sobre a pobreza no Brasil e suas manifestaes nas cidades da Amaznia
ACD Cardoso, MRG Negro
2006
Citations: 12



Saneamento ambiental em reas urbanas: esgotamento sanitrio na regio metropolitana de Belm
JAR Pereira
Numa/Ufpa 2003
Citations: 12



A insero da RMB na Amaznia e na rede urbana brasileira
ACD CARDOSO, D FERNANDES, AP BASTOS
CARDOSO, Ana Claudia e LIMA, Jos Jlio, 33-58 2015
Citations: 11