Open Spaces Systems and contemporary Metropolis: Reflections from the case of the campinas Metropolitan Region

Abstract

This article discourses on the relevancy and the present time of research on systems of open spaces in the brazilian metropolis contemporary. Initially discourses on the region metropolitan of Campinas as integrant territory of the Southeastern megalopolis of Brazil. To follow some questions are placed on the characteristics of dispersed and many nucleus urbanization that if observes in this metropolitan territory. To flows and vectors of expansion identify themselves. It is argued use of the new instruments of intervention to the disposal of the urban planning, as the Statute of the City. It is emphasized necessary update of such instruments for the satisfaction of the referring current demands to the quality of the urban space and the sphere of public life.