The contemporary relevance of Maria Angela D’incao

sensitivity and complexity in urban sociability

Abstract

This essay explores the relevance of Maria Angela D’Incao’s work to the field of Urban Sociability. The discussion is grounded in doctoral research that used D’Incao’s works as central analytical references. In the research, which drew on empirical data based on Autoethnography and other related research methods, D’Incao’s theories regarding the shift from Broad Sociabilities to Restricted Sociabilities in modern cities became key not only in the author’s scientific analyses but also in his own socio-spatial reality. These theories by D’Incao, written in the mid-1990s, engage with current debates on sociability, as seen here in the author’s correspondence with scholars such as Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, and others. Thus, Maria Angela D’Incao’s contemporary relevance and sensibility in Urban Sociability are highlighted here, even amid increasingly complex perspectives on the subject.