Transformation of Urban Life with Urban Water; Natural Waterscape to Technological Water Management System for the City of São Paulo, Brazil
Published in The Fourth NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27 January 2018, pages 170 to 175. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print). Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Clarivate).
Abstract
São Paulo, Brazil is ranked in peak inventory for the aggressively urban growth and known as most populous city in the southern hemisphere. Urban water manner is usually indication of the heritage, culture, economy and political issues of a city. The formation of São Paulo can be identified by the presence of large rivers, it was called ‘water city’ once. But with the response of climatic issues, the rivers lost its natural flow due to rectification and canalization having hard and extensive infrastructural boundaries on both banks, isolating correlation between the river and the city. Almost, the whole water system runs under the ground surface at present. With the water system the social and cultural activities of city dwellers changed through time. Once the city of water is now facing its back towards the water and the rivers are nothing but lifeless infrastructural elements. This paper investigates the transformation of urban life with the transformation of rivers and possibilities of bringing back the life of water for the city dwellers enhancing the cultural heritage of the city. Research question: • How urban life and urban water is co related for the city of São Paulo? • How technologically improvised urban water system can be linked with the city and urban people by improving the environmental factors?
Keywords: Urban Water; Urban Life; Identity of city; Culture; Technology
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