NEW URBAN MODELS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING IN METROPOLITAN CENTERS-THE CASE OF SAO PAULO
Since the beginning of the 20th century Brazil has faced the housing deficit problem by building peripheries. The crisis of the public dimension of the great contemporary metropolises, together with the social and environmental collapse of these mega-crowds, got clear at the final 1960s, getting more intense on the following years. From the 1990s, researches in the architecture and urbanism area presented some alternatives to enlarge the housing supply inside great and medium cities - that would allow a new rising of the polis. In this perspective, some urban developing projects were promoted by the Town Hall of Sao Paulo. With sites specifically chosen inside central areas, the projects stimulated new investigations about social housing problems and its relations with solid urban spaces. The national competition HabitaSampa, in 2004, for its repercussion, became an example for searching an alternative to popular and collective housing for the city of Sao Paulo. Its results were polemic inside academy and it left some uncertainty about the arguments and concepts that bases Brazilian architecture. Are we still tied up to our modern style influenced by Europe? What are the alternatives for theories that could contribute to social housing in central areas? This paper intends to enlarge the conceptual and methodological parameters for solving these questions by taking a detailed analysis of the public politics and urban concepts that bases the models of housing growth in Sao Paulo since 2001. Its conclusions establish concrete bases for future actions in social housing in city centers in Brazil.
LEANDRO MEDRANO
Department of Architecture and Building Construction, State University of Campinas, Av. Albert Eisntein, 951, Cidade Universitaria Zefererino Vaz Campinas, Sao Paulo, Cx Postal 6021, Brazil
国际会议
广州
英文
222-230
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）