In this research, I observe some subjects' experiences on Avenida Braz de Aguiar, in the
neighborhood of Nazaré, which is considered destined for the middle bands of Belém do Pará,
Amazon. Taking into account that landscapes are procedural constructions (SANSOT, 1983;
SILVEIRA, 2004; ECKERT, 2009; ECKERT and ROCHA, 2013), I paid attention mainly to
the establishment of “power landscapes” (ZUKIN, 1996), which are attractions and / or are
consistent with the subjects' practices. Such powers, especially the economic one, are expressed
by habitus (BOURDIEU, 1983), perceptible throughout Ethnography of Street (ECKERT and
ROCHA, 2013) and Ethnography of Duration (ECKERT and ROCHA, 2013). At the street,
services were and still are aimed for financially privileged layer of the city, with greater
purchasing power and status, something fundamental in building and maintaining a certain
“distinction” in the context of Belen. Braz, then, becomes a “socially hierarchical geographic
space” (BOURDIEU, 2007), in which leisure (VEBLEN, 1965) seems to be more achievable,
but not for everyone. Together, this points out to the establishment of specific processes of
sociability and sociation (SIMMEL, 1983) in the urban world of Belen, in which it is also
necessary to discuss the “aristocratic” way in which some individuals adhere/(re)create such
contemporary urban physiognomy and how the avenue is referred to and represented on social
media.
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