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STUDENT : FÁBIO ROBERTO DA NÓBREGA JÚNIOR
DATE: 13/03/2026
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Sociologia
TITLE:

Brasília: urban mobility and sociospatial segregation in the daily lives of undergraduate students at the UnB Darcy Ribeiro campus

KEY WORDS:

University of Brasília; Students; Federal District; Urban Mobility; Sociospatial Segregation

PAGES: 140
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This study is dedicated to investigating university youth mobility within the urban space of the Brasília metropolis. Our analytical focus is directed toward the trajectories of undergraduate students at the University of Brasília (UnB), on the Darcy Ribeiro campus. Located in Asa Norte (North Wing), one of the areas of the Pilot Plan, this campus receives students from various Administrative Regions of the Federal District and from its corresponding metropolitan periphery, in addition to hosting a plurality of undergraduate programs across broad fields of knowledge. Our main research question is: How do undergraduate students at UnB’s Darcy Ribeiro campus experience urban mobility, and how are they affected by the sociospatial segregation between the Administrative Regions and Brasília? As residents of a city designed for cars, these students perceive in their daily lives the weight of motorized spatial mobility in their home-to-university commute and vice versa, especially those who live far from UnB and depend on public transportation. Our objective is to analyze the influence of sociospatial dynamics on students’ trajectories and how the physical space affects the daily act of coming and going for this group of individuals. In other words, we investigate how undergraduates move around the modernist Brazilian capital as they travel to their homes, workplaces, and especially the university. To fulfill the purposes of this study, we carried out a mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) investigation, making use of three research techniques: documentary analysis, online questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews. We employed different methodological tools to more accurately understand and describe the phenomenon of urban mobility as experienced by undergraduate students. The findings indicate that the interrelation between place of residence and spatial displacement affects time availability, dedication to academic activities, course schedule organization, university life, and leisure. It was observed that the longer the time spent commuting, the more intense the (negative) impacts on students’ daily lives.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - JANICE CAIAFA PEREIRA E SILVA - UFRJ
Externa ao Programa - 1772318 - CHRISTIANE MACHADO COELHO - nullInterno - 1255605 - EDSON SILVA DE FARIAS
Presidente - 1668696 - HAYDEE GLORIA CRUZ CARUSO