Viajantes na cidade: a aventura dos usuários de transportes públicos em São Paulo

Abstract

This work aims to know the culture of public transport users, more specifically, the bus and subway travelers in São Paulo at the beginning of XXI century. Looking to the traveler, who performs the journey, the research investigates the use of these habits and what are the transport means, preparations for travel, perceptions, language and sociability. The dissertation also discusses how the travel and the city are symbolized and how the imaginary emerges of urban mobility with the city of São Paulo as empirical and theoretical object. Research has ethnographic using the participant observation, qualitative interviews and also the collection and analysis of advertising material distributed to users on the streets, at bus stops and the doors of subway stations