Os córregos ocultos e a rede de espaços públicos urbanos

Abstract

Excepting a few cases, the hydrological net of ours cities is not linked to parks or green areas, but to avenues built over, or as close as possible, the rivers. The Master Plan for São Paulo, published in 2002, intends to correct the old model in the not yet impermeable valleys. On these valleys, that form the so called "Structural Hydrological Net", parks would be set. But it lacks to extend this concept to the "capillary hydrological net", formed by little streams, most of them hidden. Their only vestiges are narrow passages, or lanes, under which they were buried. To bring back, if not the streams themselves, but at least their memory, is something necessary and possible. Besides the pedagogical effects of bringing to concious the kept back natural basis of the city, small works in these areas could provide the rehabilitation of the lanes and narrow streets, that are dark, dirty and desert, and integrate them to the townscape.