Solar Analysis on Buildings of Favelas in São Paulo to Estimate PV Potential

In the Global South, large urban spaces resulted in the duality between the so-called ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ cities. It is the case of São Paulo, a twenty-two-million people metropolis and a financial hub in Latin America. Albeit a vast literature addresses the social-spatial segregation emerging from this dual built environment, the scarcity...

Ciclo Sampa: A generalised bicycle network design applied to Sao Paulo

Nowadays the city of São Paulo has to deal with a lot of traffic jams. Extending the road network is no option and the public transport network cannot keep up with the capacity either. A solution must be found in another type of transport: cycling. The current bicycle infrastructure is not sufficient in terms of connectivity. In this research, a...

Urban projects in areas near river fronts in transformation neighborhoods: An exercise for the region of CEAGESP, São Paulo

This book brings together reflections on the theme Urban Project, understanding it as spatialization of socio-territorial demands, involving society, culture, economy and environment, with the objective of achieving equity of opportunities and social justice in the transformed territory. It brings together a set of texts although they do not...

The lost and hidden water of São Paulo: The strategic value of landscape-based green-blue infrastructure

The explosive growth of the city of São Paulo starting in the 1940s resulted in vast expansion with little attention to the characteristics of the natural landscape. This resulted in extreme modification of the water system, including canalization, piping and covering of streams. Due to these modifications and the related urban structure, São...

Counteracting Socio-spatial Segregation through Architectural Verwandlung

One of the places where the phenomenon of socio-spatial segregation is most evident and tangible is the city of São Paulo in Brazil, which is also known as “the city of walls.” I developed an architectural concept based on philosopher Elias Canetti’s concept of Verwandlung that relates the social and mental levels of segregation with the spatial...

Integrated Integrative Infrastructure: The local dimension of metropolitan mobility systems in São Paulo: An exploration of the planning and design of sustainable nodes of mobility and their impact on local spatial qualities

Research: (1) Exploring the role of infrastructure in transforming the metropolitan region of São Paulo into a sustainable metropolitan environment by utilizing the existing infrastructure as a backbone for future economic, environmental and social development. (2) Exploring the opportunity of infrastructure as a key strategy for the inclusion...

(Un)planned: How City and Large Infrastructure Meet

This research wants to show how by the historical overlapping of two thoroughly planned paradigms – ‘city’ and ‘highway’ – an unplanned mismatch could come into existence at the intersection of ring roads and city streets. Through a physical analysis of this mismatch and the planned and unplanned reactions in the cases of Amsterdam A10 West and...

Exigências de espaço aplicáveis à construção de habitação de interesse social: Comparação entre Portugal e o Município de São Paulo

This paper compares the space standards that apply to the construction of social housing in Portugal and in São Paulo, and seeks explanations for the identified differences in the socioeconomic contexts of the territories. The Controlled Cost Housing (CCH) from Portugal and the housing built within the program My Home My Life (MHML) in the São...