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The world in a trance
The contrast between the Real Parque shantytown and the buildings on the Nova Faria Lima area, on the southside of São Paulo city Brazil’s urban problems have become more complex in the last few...
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From drizzle to downpour
Between 1933 and 2010, the annual total rainfall increased by 425 mm in the metropolitan region, according to data from USP The land of drizzle has become the megalopolis of storms. Over the last 80...
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Cities in pictures
Details of pillar at Jaú (SP) bus terminal, by João Vilanova Artigas The main goal of the social network Arquigrafia Brazil is enlarging visual culture about architecture of Brazilian Internet...
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Vocation for greatness and for problems
A busy avenue in São Paulo: result of the city’s enormous, unplanned growth In the 1920s, Oswald de Andrade ironically described São Paulo’s vocation as “the natives’ enthusiasm for a ‘civilizing’...
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Between Concrete Walls
This was the Tietê and the yacht club in São Paulo in 1915. Every year at this time, when the rains are heavier and more frequent, the rivers and creeks of the city of São Paulo become visible and...
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A bit of fresh air
Campinas, third most populous city in the state of São Paulo: between parks and skyscrapers in Campinas, SP By comparing maps made from satellite images with those from computer simulations,...
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Scientists Speak About the Water Crisis
On December 12, 2014, the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) published its Carta de São Paulo (São Paulo Letter), a document that presents analyses and makes recommendations for dealing with the...
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Urban watchman
An app called Cidadera, which people can use to acknowledge and report urban problems like potholes and water shortages, was created in 2013 by students and alumni of the Federal University of São...
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Walking and talking
An agreeable pastime, watching how people walk down the street, may also contribute to the design of safer and more pleasant public spaces. During one year, Francesco Zanlungo, Dražen Brščić, and...
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Avoiding recurrent misfortunes
Dwellers isolated in the Jardim Romano neighborhood, on São Paulo’s east side. Short term extreme events, as for example the heavy rains that poured down on São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos...
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The DNA of innovation in the metropolises
The São Paulo Metropolitan Region, which is smaller than only the megalopolises of Shanghai and Beijing in China, and Seoul in South Korea, ranks fourth on a list of urban clusters in which the...
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From deforestation to urban pollution
Cubatão industrial complex in the Santos Metropolitan Region Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in the Amazon Region could be reduced to zero by 2030 if the new Forest Code is fully...
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The metrics of urban growth
Since 2003, a team led by physicist Geoffrey West, of the Santa Fe Institute in the United States, has been gathering evidence that city growth follows certain statistical patterns. It is a sort of...
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Housing as a commodity
“Evictions: an organized crime” reads a sign at a 2013 protest in Madrid. Some mortgage holders were left homeless but still in debt For six years – from 2008 to 2014 – the architect and urban...
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Paulo Saldiva: Towards a healthier city
Pathologist Paulo Saldiva began studying the harmful effects of urban pollution on health 30 years ago, significantly advanced his professional career, yet was not content to see the results of his...
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Suffocating population
The color of lead: pollutants from cars saturate the air in the city of São Paulo If you could choose where to live in cities such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or even Porto Alegre, it would be...
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Aligned with society
A flexible institution, focused on the fields of social sciences and humanities, which supports state-of-the-art research generating studies to act as the basis for the public policies sector. This...
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An architect of change
MASP under construction (1968) Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), the Italian citizen born Achillina Bo, would have formed part of Brazil’s architectural history, if nothing else, for the landmarks she...
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Animal progress
The uncomfortable coexistence of the modernity of the streetcar and the ancientness of the ox in the capital city According to records, it was back in 1685 in Recife when a mosquito bit an...
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The city of engineers
Anhangabaú Valley “Until 1900 those interested in the “accommodation” issue met in the homes of the hygienists, when they began residing separately. The engineer maintains fruitful and cordial...
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