Urban Distinctions: Class, Culture and Sociability in the City of Porto

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A City for Itself: A Peripheral Mixed City's Struggle for Cultural Capital

“…As Wacquant () has recently argued, Bourdieu's powerful formulation of the society‐space relationship has not yet exhausted itself, and is still very much relevant to urban studies in particular . Indeed, his influential theorization has served to analyze the distribution of different forms of capital in neighborhoods (Bridge ), housing and education choices (Bridge ), the seclusion of elites in upscale quarters (Pinçon‐Charlot and Pinçon ), and spatial segregation in cities (Marom ; Pereira ). These examples use Bourdieu's vocabulary to interpret urban processes and spaces (Marom ).…”

“…The distribution of cultural capital as a means of domination is linked to current critiques of culture‐led urban regeneration strategies, enabling readings—such as those of Pereira (), Savage et al. (), and Zukin () (to name just a few)—of uneven urban development through the lens of cultural capital.…”

Bourdieu Comes to Town: Pertinence, Principles, Applications

“…That analytic triad is at the center of ‘Urban distinctions: class, culture and sociability in Porto’ (Pereira, , this issue), in which Virgílio Borges Pereira builds on his path‐breaking book, Classes e culturas de classe das famílias portuenses (2005), which extends Bourdieu's model of social space and symbolic power in Distinction to probe social relations and cultural practices across the full gamut of neighborhoods in the Portuguese city. Pereira combines field observation with Bourdieu's distinctive methodology of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to project a multi‐layered cartography of the city's social space onto its physical layout.…”

A Recommendation System based on Clustering and Classification for Optimal Trajectory Analysis

“…In the new approach, we used Google Maps (Google Inc., 2018) to divide Porto city into smaller rectangles. For the districts of Porto city, we relied on the Porto urban distinctions research conducted by Pereira in 2018 (Pereira, 2018). In his research, he divided Porto city into 18 various districts, he identified the location (i.e.…”

“…patterns with highest support values to analyze the flow of taxi trips among Porto city's districts. Figure 18 shows Porto city urban distinctions based on the author's work (Pereira, 2018) along with our sequential patterns. We plotted each pattern as an arrow to define its flow and the districts it navigates to.…”