In order to seek a quality lifestyle in Latin American urban centers, the high rates of violence that terrify these cities must be taken into consideration.
Brazilian cities are no exception to this rule, with their perverse combination of uncontrolled urbanization, lack of consistent policies for building structured social networks and severe income disparity, all of which inevitably generate poverty and violence.
The decline in the quality of life in urban centers over the past few decades may best be portrayed by the metaphor “split cities” which speaks of areas in which “no one enters or no one is in charge”. Failure to observe basic rules of citizenship, such as obeying traffic regulations, exercising a minimum level of civility with regard to the environment, and the lack of any collective consensus on what constitutes appropriate behavior, etc., are unambiguous symptoms of the lack of policies towards improving the organization of civic society.
Add the lack of moral and social values to this mixture, such as respect for others, the tearing apart of family structures, and excessive consumerism, and we have a “culture soup” which builds a society that will progressively lose its capacity to restrain excess and to direct its creative potential towards a fairer, egalitarian and happier future.
It is within this context that we place the issues regarding security. We study their complexities and identify their variables, searching constantly for alternatives, answers and solutions to these issues.
This is M&A Associates’ primary objective.
“Boldness is the distinguishing quality of men who make a difference because they don’t see things merely as things. They see: Men, Processes and Future!”
Brazilian cities are no exception to this rule, with their perverse combination of uncontrolled urbanization, lack of consistent policies for building structured social networks and severe income disparity, all of which inevitably generate poverty and violence.
The decline in the quality of life in urban centers over the past few decades may best be portrayed by the metaphor “split cities” which speaks of areas in which “no one enters or no one is in charge”. Failure to observe basic rules of citizenship, such as obeying traffic regulations, exercising a minimum level of civility with regard to the environment, and the lack of any collective consensus on what constitutes appropriate behavior, etc., are unambiguous symptoms of the lack of policies towards improving the organization of civic society.
Add the lack of moral and social values to this mixture, such as respect for others, the tearing apart of family structures, and excessive consumerism, and we have a “culture soup” which builds a society that will progressively lose its capacity to restrain excess and to direct its creative potential towards a fairer, egalitarian and happier future.
It is within this context that we place the issues regarding security. We study their complexities and identify their variables, searching constantly for alternatives, answers and solutions to these issues.
This is M&A Associates’ primary objective.
“Boldness is the distinguishing quality of men who make a difference because they don’t see things merely as things. They see: Men, Processes and Future!”