Three proposals and three characters: the Tietê river, its rectification and channeling and the urbanistic proposals for its banks in the city of São Paulo

• Grant number: 12/51744-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: July 23, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Maria Lucia Caira Gitahy
• Grantee: Maria Cecilia Lucchese
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research shows as study focus designs to the rectilinear watercourse of Tietê river in São Paulo City and designs and recommendations for the urban usage of its borders, namely the Francisco Saturnino de Brito's design from 1924, the João Florence de Ulhôa Cintra's design from 1928, and the Moses Report recommendations from 1950. The research method asks, on the one hand, what philosophic approaches these designs hold on and how these approaches were inserted in the intellectual context in its time, and by the other hand, what political and economic positions these designs support or counter, and however these designs technical defenses were related with every position detected. It intends that the research lasts two years long. (AU)