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As a case study for a pilot-project, it was chosen the Caulim Creek Neighborshed, one of the streams that is included in the State’s Water and Sanitation Company Program of Clean Streams. The chosen project area border the environmental protection area that is still preserved and flows to the Guarapiranga Reservoir, in the southernmost tip of the urban sprawl. Home of 20.000 people, it is a sector of 200 km2 in the watershed area where is still possible to find streams not yet channelized and remaining forests patches, and where the sewage catchment system is already set. | |||
This case study is also interesting because it can depict a proposal of landscape plan and design as green infrastructure for an area where the conflict between the urban growth and the nature preservation seems contradictory, and could explicit how environmental problems are inseparable from the economic and social realms in an emergent mega-city. | |||
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Revision as of 15:50, 19 November 2008
Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)
As a case study for a pilot-project, it was chosen the Caulim Creek Neighborshed, one of the streams that is included in the State’s Water and Sanitation Company Program of Clean Streams. The chosen project area border the environmental protection area that is still preserved and flows to the Guarapiranga Reservoir, in the southernmost tip of the urban sprawl. Home of 20.000 people, it is a sector of 200 km2 in the watershed area where is still possible to find streams not yet channelized and remaining forests patches, and where the sewage catchment system is already set.
This case study is also interesting because it can depict a proposal of landscape plan and design as green infrastructure for an area where the conflict between the urban growth and the nature preservation seems contradictory, and could explicit how environmental problems are inseparable from the economic and social realms in an emergent mega-city.
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