As estratégias de implantação física de universidades federais no Brasil: um estudo comparativo entre dois períodos de expansão 1960-1970 e 2000-2010

Abstract

After the World War II, there was a significant demand for higher education all over the ons were created. In the first decade of 2000 we had a second expansion movement and 19 new universities were created. architecture and urbanism considering the physical aspect. On the other hand, there was a lack of studies about the strategies for the second period after 2000 on the same subject. The aim of this study is to better understand how the insertion of the campi occurred in the new federal universities, by studying the strategies used for the physical expansion. The second expansion period resulted in universities with more than just one campus, ranging across a wide variety of less populated cities. As consequence, these cities were largely benefited for housing their first institutions. In addition, we observed that such recent Institutions were placed in a smaller area other than the ones from the first period. This characteristic brought big structural modifications in the new campi. The recent expanded universities are largely different from those of the first period. Mainly because they are now spread throughout small cities, where they have leverage and sometimes establishing as a region of a specific knowledge. The physical implantation strategies for these new universities present a great opportunity to define new goals aiming the future places to expand Universities in our country.