Projetos Urbanos

Muitos projetos e estudos já foram feitos para a Praça Roosevelt. Este trabalho de graduação da Gláucia Maia, USP São Carlos, mostra a história e os projetos da praça.
www.saplei.eesc.usp.br/tgi2007/…

Projeto de transformação da praça, feito por um grupo paulistano, para a mostra UIA Istanbul 2005.
www.vitruvius.com.br/institucional/inst98/inst98_08.asp

Novela Praça Roosevelt. Discussão sobre as intervenções e demolições propostas no local, no site do Fórum Centro Vivo.
www.centrovivo.org/node/760

Site de moradores e usuários da praça. Parece que a maioria é contra a demolição da laje pentagonal.
http://pracarooseveltsp.blogspot.com/

Since the end of last year the square with its concrete structures is awaiting demolition. As the demolition job is still stuck in legal and political processes, the secretary responsible for the area was obliged to open the space again to the public and clean the place up, until further decisions are made. After the elections in the end of this month we´ll probably see a next chapter in the short yet turbulent life of Praça Roosevelt. The removal of the walls revealed the spatial qualities of the original design. Nevertheless it is almost certain that the brutalist concrete structure will be demolished to make place for a new uncovered terraced layout, but who knows…

Photographic survey on October 21 2008

Documentary about the Cheong Gye Cheon river restoration project in the centre of Seoul, South Korea.
The river regained its symbolic value and leisure function in Seoul´s daily life. A 380 billion Won revitalization project took over two years to demolish the concrete expressway that covered the polluted stream from the 1970´s and to depollute the water along the 5.8 km tract.

Duration 20 minutes.

Cheong Gye spring

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As usual the Germans are way ahead when it comes to ecological projects and temporary use of urban voids and abandoned buildings. This website bundles a number of these projects, research and contacts in Berlin, as well as a few international examples in – what a coincidence – São Paulo: They mention the Coopamare recycling program; reuse of factories by the cultural intstitutions SESC Pompéia and SESC Belenzinho; and Teatro da Vertigem, a theatre group that performed a play in 2006 on boats and riverbanks of the polluted Tietê river.
Various urban researchers and artistic projects are associated to the site, such as Urban Dialogues and Berliner Unterwelten.

See: www.experimentcity.net

Short documentary about Kuhlhaus Gleisdreieck