Discussões sobre o papel dos espaços livres públicos nos bairros de elite¹ contemporâneos

Abstract

This paper addresses the need of a public open space system in order to overcome official urban development patterns inadequate to the original physical support by studying three contemporary elite neighborhoods. It asserts that the public space survival depends on the change of social, cultural and economic aspects that undermines the possibility of diverse social classes coexistence. It concludes that the neglected brazilian urban landscape, and specially the one of São Paulo, is a result of the state omission in leading a social pact needed to finish the present stage of spatial segregation of different social classes.