Urban planning regulations and urban form: Sao Paulo in the 21st century

Abstract

The research, related to the thematic project "Architecture and Urbanism, addressing the social space in the 21st century: segregation strategies and appropriation tactics"deals with the relationship between urban planning legislation and the urban form of the city of São Paulo in the 21st century, based on its Strategic Master Plan of 2014. For this purpose, the study objects will be recent urban planning laws that directly affect the use and land occupation: the 2014 Strategic Master Plan and its subsequent Land Installment and Use Act of 2016, investigating how the guidelines of such instruments guide the form and the urban insertion of collective housing typologies in the city of Sao Paulo. Since these laws implemented urbanistic instruments considered as formatters of a new paradigm of spatial production, the study aims to understand to what extent the form of the architectural object, conditioned by legal parameters, can be considered or not an advance from the point of view of the heterogeneous and not segregating city, given the recognition that such instruments, especially in the perspective of urban morphology, directly influence the quality of the city's spaces. (AU)