Urban Space and poetry in the Federal District:

clues for an investigation of city representations

Abstract

This paper intends to re ect about the representations of the city in two administrative regions of the Federal District: Ceilândia and Planaltina-DF. For this purpose, it is based on  two visits to the University of Brasília (UnB) campus in each of these regions and mobilizes the observations and reports collected in these two moments. Furthermore, it intends to approach the representations of the city through the poetry produced by its inhabitants, which allow us to think about the experiences and feelings that urban life arouses in those  who inhabit its spaces. Thus, it mobilizes the conceptual framework of Raymond Williams in dialogue with debates in Urban Sociology.