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Green Infrastructure for the Informal Settlement in the Watershed Area of São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)

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Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?

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 Caulim Creek project area borders the environmental protection area that is still preserved and flows to the Guarapiranga Reservoir, in the southernmost tip of the São Paulo 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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Green infrastructure for informal settlement in São Paulo Watershed Area

Green infrastructure is the network of connected open spaces where a myriad of landscape elements integrate natural processes in the urban fabric. It represents a way of taking advantage of ecological services for promoting sustainability and conservation of natural resources in the urban areas and its surrounding region.

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