Desires and cities: the difficult daily art of collective life

Authors

  • Eliana Kuster

Keywords:

cities, desire, conviviality

Abstract

he pleasures and difficulties of urban life are our starting point for this essay. We congregate some authors who had dealt with this subject: the 'desire of the city', strong motivation that impel the men for the collective life, and the 'desire in the city', the individual impulses that can make difficult the formation of this collective life. Through Sade, Calvino and Perec, we go to arrive at the Greek Polis, where the aspect politician of the collective life appeared for the first time. Since the Greeks, therefore, there is the question: how can be possible the life in the cities?

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Author Biography

  • Eliana Kuster

    Arquiteta. Mestre em Estruturas Ambientais Urbanas pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (FAU/USP) e doutoranda em Planejamento Urbano e Regional no Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IPPUR/UFRJ). Professora do curso de Construção Civil do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Espírito Santo CEFET/ES.

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Published

2009-09-16

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Dossiê Cidades

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Desires and cities: the difficult daily art of collective life. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, v. 21, n. 2, p. 275–294, 2009. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4748. Acesso em: 13 dec. 2025.