Project Amoreiras (Mulberry Trees): Autonomy and Artificial Learning in an Urban Environment

Leonardo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbertto Prado
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Emergent Behavior ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
Urban Intervention ◽  
Artificial Learning

This artist’s writing discusses Project Amoreiras, developed by the Poéticas Digitais Group. The proposal is an urban intervention involving art, technology and environment, configured as an interactive installation of mulberry trees on the Paulista Avenue (São Paulo, Brazil). The article highlights its poetic and technological elements as critical positioning on pollution in the metropolitan environment, the processes of autonomy and artificial learning, the emergent behavior of the trees, the application of John Conway’s neighborhood principles to the project as well as the positive reception of the proposal by the pedestrians during the exhibition.

scholarly journals Projeto de intervenção urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa-Lobos: resenha crítica sobre os principais aspectos jurídicos / Urban intervention project Vila Leopoldina-Villa-Lobos: critical review on the main legal aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-370
Author(s):  
Jose Antonio Apparecido Junior
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Intervention ◽  
Intervention Area ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
Urban Regulation ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
Urban Development Policy

ResumoO presente artigo tem por objetivo realizar uma análise crítica do Projeto de Lei n. 428/2019, do Município de São Paulo, que tem por objeto estabelecer objetivos, diretrizes, estratégias e mecanismos para a implantação do Projeto de Intervenção Urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos e cria a Área de Intervenção Urbana correspondente, naquele município. Para tanto, disserta inicialmente sobre a natureza e o conteúdo dos denominados “Projetos de Intervenção Urbana”, previstos na Lei Municipal n. 16.402/2014, o Plano Diretor Estratégico de São Paulo, delimitando suas finalidades e possibilidades de atuação. Após, analisa criticamente os dispositivos do apontado projeto de lei, tecendo considerações pertinentes às novidades em termos de proposta de regulação urbanística em si estabelecidos. O resultado do trabalho é a constatação de uma abordagem inovadora e diferenciada da instrumentação jurídica prevista no projeto de lei, já que elaborada de forma a atender especificamente aos termos de um projeto urbanístico derivado do plano diretor, ao mesmo tempo em que proporciona a implantação da política de desenvolvimento urbano nele previsto.Palavras-chave: Direito urbanístico. Projeto de Intervenção Urbana. Área de Intervenção Urbana. Potencial Construtivo Adicional. Regulação Urbanística. AbstractThe purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the mains aspects of Draft Law no. 428/2019, of the municipality of São Paulo City, whose purpose is to establish objectives, guidelines, strategies and mechanisms for the implementation of the Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos Urban Intervention Project (Projeto de Intervenção Urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos) and create the corresponding Urban Intervention Area (Área de Intervenção Urbana) in that municipality. In order to do so, it first discusses the nature and content of the so-called "Urban Intervention Projects", provided for in Municipal Law n. 16,402/2014, the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo (Plano Diretor Estratégico), delimiting its purposes and possibilities of action. Afterwards, it critically analyzes the provisions of the aforementioned bill, weaving considerations pertinent to the novelties in terms of the proposal of urban regulation itself established. The result of the work is the finding of an innovative and differentiated approach to the legal instrumentation envisaged in the draft law, since it is designed in order to specifically meet the terms of an urban project derived from the master plan, while at the same time providing the implementation of the urban development policy envisaged.Keywords: Urban Law. Urban Intervention Project. Urban Intervention Area. Additional Constructive Potential. Urban Regulation

scholarly journals Two Interviews, Images of the Mobility Paths

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (73) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel Imbronito ◽  
Biagio Antonio Barletta Jr
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life ◽  
The Way

This document compares two videos that date from the same year (1969) and provide a basis for discussion about two different paradigms of urban thinking present in the 1960’s: an interview with Jane Jacobs on the show "The way it is", on Canadian broadcaster CBC, in which she disputes the plans to build Spadina Expressway in Toronto, and a presentation by the then Mayor of São Paulo, Paulo Salim Maluf, on the plans to build Elevado Presidente Costa e Silva (currently named Elevado João Goulart, nicknamed Minhocão [the Big Worm]), an elevated expressway in São Paulo. By confronting the videos, the antagonism of the discourses regarding the role of road infrastructure, the value given to the urban environment, and the idea of quality of urban life becomes clear. The materials are also an illustration of two different outcomes: the halting of the Spadina Expressway works in Toronto and the completion of the Minhocão works in São Paulo.

scholarly journals Generative Copies: Modernist Architecture and Urbanism in Brazil

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Holston
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Architectural Production ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Modernist Architecture ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Frequent Criticism

Libertem o espírito de Brasília-Uma critica frequente contra a arquitectura moderna é a de que, através da adopção de soluções padrão homogeneizadoras, elimina as diferenças locais. Para investigar esta asserção, parto da adopção do modernismo dos CIAM feita pelo Brasil. Foco-me no problema da “cópia”, que é necessariamente uma componente da propagação de qualquer paradigma de significação (incluindo a arquitectura), quer dizer, no problema de reiterar e transplantar convenções reconhecíveis em novos contextos. Por vezes, as tais “cópias” dos paradigmas arquitectónicos homogenizam o ambiente urbano; noutros casos, criam públicos diversos e activos. Para investigar as condições que determinam cada resultado, desenvolvo uma análise antropológica dos modos de produção da arquitectura moderna dos CIAM no Brasil. Evidencio dois modos, um decorrente do planeamento urbano e projecto total, e um outro que descrevo como o de layers urbanos, da justaposição e da contingência. O meu argumento é de que quando a arquitectura modernista é produzida como um ambiente urbano totalmente projectado utilizando as convenções modernas de projecto e planeamento, o resultado tende a anular tanto os edifícios como o espaço, em repetições idênticas, esvaziando a sua vitalidade e interesse. Pelo contrário quando a arquitectura moderna é produzida em condições de densidade urbana suficientes para gerar uma justaposição por layers de diferentes formas e espaços, o resultado anima tanto os edifícios como os espaços, independentemente da coordenação estética do conjunto ou do mérito estético dos elementos individualmente. Para ilustrar, dou exemplo antagónicos de Óscar Niemeyer. Primeiro discuto a lógica espacial da totalização moderna no projecto e planeamento, exemplificando com uma paisagem urbana (Brasília) e um edifício único que assume a totalidade (o Memorial da América Latina de São Paulo). Discuto depois a densidade dos layers urbanos de um único edifício, Copan, na baixa de São Paulo.Concluo com o debate sobre as relações entre este tipo de produção arquitectónica baseada em layers e o que chamei de “urbanismo emergente”.-A frequent criticism leveled against modern architecture is that it reduces local differences to homogenized templates of architectural solution.  I use the case of Brazil's renditions of CIAM modernism to investigate this charge.  I focus on the problem of "copying" that is necessarily a component of the propagation of any paradigm of signification (including architecture), that is, on the problem of reiterating and transplanting recognizable conventions into new contexts.  Sometimes such "copying" of architectural paradigms homogenizes the urban environment; at other times, it creates active and diverse publics.  To investigate the conditions that determine each outcome, I develop an anthropological analysis of the modes of producing CIAM modernist architecture in Brazil.  I contrast two modes, that of master planning and total design and what I describe as that of urban layering, juxtaposition, and contingency.My argument is that when modernist architecture is produced as a totally designed urban environment using modernist conventions of design and planning, the result tends to flatten both building and space into repetitious sameness, draining their vitality and interest.  In contrast, when modernist architecture is produced in conditions of urban density sufficient to generate a layered juxtaposition of different forms and spaces, the result animates both building and space, independent of the aesthetic coordination of the whole or the aesthetic merit of individual elements.  To illustrate, I contrast several examples by Oscar Niemeyer.  First, I discuss the spatial logic of modernist totalization in planning and design, using the examples of a whole cityscape (Brasília) and a single building that assumes such a whole (the Memorial of Latin America in São Paulo).  I then discuss the dense urban layering of a single building, Copan, in downtown São Paulo.I conclude with a discussion of the relation between this sort of layered architectural production and what I have called "insurgent urbanism." 

Assessing the impact of urban environment and green infrastructure on mental health: results from the São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiana C. L. Moreira ◽  
Jefferson L. Polize ◽  
Marceli Brito ◽  
Demostenes F. da Silva Filho ◽  
Alexandre D. P. Chiavegato Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Mental Health Survey ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Space Syntax in an idiorrhythmical conglomerate: the case of Jardim Piratininga, São Paulo, Brazil

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Silva ◽  
Heraldo Borges ◽  
Bruno Futema
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Intervention ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Special Zone

This article is the result of a partnership between the research group Urban Issues: Design, Architecture, Planning and Landscape - Q.URB, and the Group of Studies of the Urban Form in Brazil - FU.bá, both of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbiterian University. It aims to contribute to urban design alternatives in the Jardim Piratininga neighborhood, located in the East Zone of the Municipality of São Paulo, and to offer subsidies for future Urban Intervention Projects (PIU), since this area was defined, by the 2012 Strategic Master Plan, as Special Zone of Social Interest - ZEIS. It is hypothesized that the study area, considered as an emerging urban fabric stratum and lacking in a large part of its area of ​​basic urbanization infrastructures, holds in itself the potential for a future re-adaptation and complementation of its roadway. The methodology that will be used in the analytical approach of the urban form, known as Space Syntax, seeks to provide: support for decision making; tools to calibrate these decisions; evaluate proposed scenarios; as well as combining other methods and tools. This methodology seeks to confirm something we already know - the need to complete ‘mesh design’ in urbanized areas that have, in contemporary cities, a different constitution from that observed in more sedimented and stable areas (traditional city). As a result, possibilities of transformation of the roadway will be presented according to diverse scenarios, but based on the dynamics of the place itself, and also with the surrounding urban fabric.

Seasonal Variation of Suicide in the City of São Paulo, Brazil, 1996–2010

Crisis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hideki Bando ◽  
Fernando Madalena Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
June July ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

Background: In light of the few reports from intertropical latitudes and their conflicting results, we aimed to replicate and update the investigation of seasonal patterns of suicide occurrences in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: Data relating to male and female suicides were extracted from the Mortality Information Enhancement Program (PRO-AIM), the official health statistics of the municipality of São Paulo. Seasonality was assessed by studying distribution of suicides over time using cosinor analyses. Results: There were 6,916 registered suicides (76.7% men), with an average of 39.0 ± 7.0 observed suicides per month. For the total sample and for both sexes, cosinor analysis estimated a significant seasonal pattern. For the total sample and for males suicide peaked in November (late spring) with a trough in May–June (late autumn). For females, the estimated peak occurred in January, and the trough in June–July. Conclusions: A seasonal pattern of suicides was found for both males and females, peaking in spring/summer and dipping in fall/winter. The scarcity of reports from intertropical latitudes warrants promoting more studies in this area.

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