Brazil is currently undergoing a major transformation largely due to the economic development it has experienced over the last decade. On the one hand, unemployment rates of the new global player reached the lowest level in history in 2013, less than 4. on the other hand, such a scenario expresses renewed levels of social conflict, increasing criminal violence and incarceration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork which has been conducted since 2005 in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, the exposition...

The originator of the Mosaic and Acorn neighbourhood classifications, Richard Webber is associated with the use of commercial sociology and big data as alternatives source of evidence in the social sciences to the traditional research questionnaire. Geodemographic classifications such as Mosaic and Acorn associate each postcode with categories such as New Urban Colonists, Rustbelt Resilience or Summer Playgrounds based on the demographics of their residents. He is also visiting professor in...

Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle Universitys School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. His research addresses the complex links between urban places and mobilities, infrastructures, militarization, survieillance, security and war. His books include Telecommunications and the City, Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail and Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. His next book, Vertical: The...