Cadernos Metrópole 71

The Scientific Editors and Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Metrópole invite researchers from areas of knowledge that approach the urban and regional issue to send texts to the organization of volume 30, number 71, about the theme

The verticalization of cities

Organizers: Nadia Somekh, Manoel Lemes da Silva Neto, Fernando Túlio Salva Rocha Franco

 

The verticalization of cities is both a historical process and a politically determined one, rather than a mere consequence of urban growth. Initially associated with technological progress and symbolically linked to economic power, it is now connected to urban densification and may help prevent urban sprawl and the depletion of natural resources. However, the concept of the compact city has not necessarily produced urbanity.

In Brazil, vertical growth has become a driver of selective real estate appreciation, dissociated from the production of urbanity and the expansion of the right to the city – a trend that can also be observed, to varying degrees, in other national contexts. Associated with contemporary dynamics such as the financialization of housing, the housing crisis, and urban densification strategies, verticalization has not consistently contributed either to reducing inequalities or to addressing housing needs.

What is being consolidated is an urban model devoid of urbanity. The demolition-construction binomial results in the destruction of pre-existing structures, the weakening of public spaces, and the erosion of identity references. At the same time, transformations in the production sphere intensify the coexistence of old and new urban problems. Thus, verticalization can be understood as a mediation between economic transformations and spatial reconfigurations; however, it does not produce socially integrative urban forms.

Building cities requires confronting these contradictions: expanding the supply of housing for different income groups, reducing gentrification processes, upgrading mobility systems in line with the environmental agenda, and strengthening public spaces, while preserving historical heritage and recognizing the value of pre-existing structures as supports for memory and identity. The limit of the compact city is urbanity, understood here as a condition of social and political coexistence mediated by public spaces, the shared use of territory, and the recognition of differences.

Research on verticalization enables the identification of distinct phases in the production of urban space, characterized by the relationships between the state, the market, and planning instruments. A first phase, in which high-rise buildings emerge as symbolic representations of economic progress; a second, associated with housing production and state financing; a third, marked by legal and institutional transformations and the reconfiguration of planning instruments; and, finally, a recent phase in which mass housing production coexists with highly segmented forms of real estate appreciation, reinforcing urban inequalities.

In all of those phases, the logic of space production predominantly oriented toward market interests persists, with limited capacity to respond to social and territorial demands. Although grounded in specific contexts, these configurations enable the identification of recurring patterns of contemporary urbanization, opening up effective bases for comparison across different national and regional settings.

In light of this scenario, the dossier invites the submission of papers that contribute to a critical assessment of verticalization, exploring its historical, economic, social, spatial, and institutional dimensions across different contexts. Of particular interest are discussions of the extent to which – and the conditions under which – it is possible to reorient these processes toward the production of urbanity and the reduction of socio-spatial inequalities, as well as analyses that reveal the structural limits, contradictions, and impasses shaping these transformations.

 

 

Deadline to send manuscripts: JANUARY 17, 2027

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS

SCOPE AND EDITORIAL POLICY

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole is published three times a year and focuses on the debate on issues related to urbanization processes and the different forms that the urban question assumes in the contemporary reality. It is targeted at the academic community in general, especially the areas of Architecture and Urbanism, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Demography and Social Sciences.

The Journal publishes texts authored by researchers and scholars who study urban themes and discuss the effects of socio-spatial transformations on the conditioning of the cities’ political-institutional system, and also challenges to the adoption of management models based on urban governance. The Journal does not publish texts authored by undergraduate students.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole has a thematic nucleus, with a specific Call for Papers, and a nucleus of free themes related to the areas mentioned above. Thematic texts must be sent within the established deadline and must comply with the requirements of the Call for Papers, while free texts are received by the journal continuously.

The papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French.

Papers submitted to Cadernos Metrópole must be submitted through the link https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/metropole/about/submissions.

Papers must NOT contain any kind of author identification.

The Journal does not accept articles having more than 3 authors.

The journal does not publish articles of authorship or co-authorship of graduates. If necessary, they will be cited as "collaborators" at the end of the text.

At least one author/co-author must hold a doctorate degree at the time of submission.

It is fundamental to send the Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s). The document must be attached at step 4 of the paper's submission.

The texts will be published in the original language and in English. The quality and costs of the translation will be the sole responsibility of the authors. Translation is mandatory only for texts that are selected for publication.

Translations must have been reviewed by a specialist or equivalent professional, to be paid for by the author. Translations performed by Artificial Intelligence without professional human review will not be accepted.

Authors must comply with an interval of 2 (two) editions for new publication

 

EVALUATION OF PAPERS

Papers received for publication must be original and will be submitted to the appreciation of the members of the Editorial Board and of ad hoc consultants, who will issue their opinions. The papers will receive two evaluations and, whenever necessary, a third one. The anonymity of authors and reviewers is respected.

The Scientific Editors and the Editorial Committee are in charge of the final selection of the texts that were recommended for publication by the reviewers, taking into account their academic-scientific consistency, clearness, relevance, originality and opportune discussion of the theme.

The texts approved by the referees that were not selected for publication in the issue to which they were submitted will be presented to the editors of the subsequent issues, to be published in the Complementary Texts section.

 

COMMUNICATION WITH AUTHORS

The authors will receive an e-mail with the final decision, and the Journal may not return unpublished originals.

 

AUTHOR’S RIGHTS

The Journal cannot afford to pay copyright nor distribute copies of individual papers.

The Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s), must be sent with the paper.

The content of the text is the authors’ responsibility.

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a data availability statement for the data used or generated in the research underlying the texts.

The final version of the approved article will be published with the name of the editor or editors responsible for the manuscript evaluation process.

 

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION

Each author’s contribution should be identified according to the CREDiT taxonomy, according to specific functions: conceptualization; data curation; formal analysis; funding acquisition; investigation; methodology; project administration; resources; software; supervision; validation; visualization; writing of the original draft; writing-review and editing.

 

NORMS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers must have, in that order:

• title with 12 words at the most, in Portuguese, or in the language in which it was written, and in English;
• abstract with 120 words at the most, in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and another one in English, with indication of 5 (five) keywords in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and in English;
• text keyboarded in Word, space 1.5, font Arial size 11; the text must have 20 to 25 pages at the most, including tables, graphs, figures, and bibliographic references; images must be sent in JPG format, with minimum resolution of 300 dpi and maximum width of 13 cm;
• subtitles, no more than 6 words;
• after the references, state each author's contribution to the work and answer the questions below:

1) Declaration of conflict of interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

 

2) Declaration of availability of research data

The PDF file must contain a statement indicating the availability of the research data. Please choose one of the following statements:

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been made available at [repository name] and can be accessed at [URL or preferably the DOI]. (Please indicate any restrictions, where applicable).

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been published in the article itself.

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been published in the article and in the "Supplementary Materials" section.

- The dataset supporting the results of this study is not publicly available.

 

 

Bibliographic references following the instructions below rigorously:

Books

AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.) (year of publication). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

CASTELLS, M. (1983). A questão urbana. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra.

 

Book chapters

CHAPTER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). "Title of the chapter". In: BOOK'S AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

BRANDÃO, M. D. de A. (1981). “O último dia da criação: mercado, propriedade e uso do solo em Salvador”. In: VALLADARES, L. do P. (ed.). Habitação em questão. Rio de Janeiro, Zahar.

 

Papers published in journals

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. Title of the journal. City, journal's volume, journal's issue, paper's initial and final page.

Example:

TOURAINE, A. (2006). Na fronteira dos movimentos sociais. Sociedade e Estado. Dossiê movimentos sociais. Brasília, v. 21, n.1, pp. 17-28.

 

Papers presented in scientific events

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. In: NAME OF CONGRESS, number, year, place where it was held. Title of the publication. City, Publishing house, initial and final pages.

Example:

SALGADO, M. A. (1996). Políticas sociais na perspectiva da sociedade civil: mecanismos de controle social, monitoramento e execução, parcerias e financiamento. In: SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL: UMA AGENDA PARA O FINAL DO SÉCULO. Anais. Brasília, MPAS/SAS, pp. 193-207.

 

Theses, dissertations and monographs

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title. Doctoral dissertation or Master's thesis. City, Institution.

Example:

FUJIMOTO, N. (1994). A produção monopolista do espaço urbano e a desconcentração do terciário de gestão na cidade de São Paulo. O caso da avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini. Master's thesis. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo.

 

Internet texts

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the text. Available from. Date of access.

Example:

FERREIRA, J. S. W. (2005). A cidade para poucos: breve história da propriedade urbana no Brasil. Available from: http://www.usp.br/fau/depprojeto/labhab/index.html. Access on: Sep 8 2005.