São Paulo's New Master Plan Prioritizes Sustainable Urban Development
[2024-01-02 10:24:55]
The biggest city in Latin America has priority to restrain car culture and make the town suitable for pedestrians.
According to Fernando de Mello Franco, Director of the Municipal Development Agency, the new plan aims to increase public space, improve and prevent the use of cars. Urban transport is the focus of the whole program and covers topics such as education, culture, health, housing, environment. As explained below, the city has announced a new plan that emphasizes improvement of investment sidewalk, creation of new bike lane, introduction of private bus lane, and reduction of parking space of new urban building.
Traffic routes and areas surrounding the hallway are important opportunities for city transformation and optimization of urban land use. These areas can shape into a quiet and easy-to-live community that can lead to transportation bases
With the new zoning rule, the development speed of the transport corridor will be quadrupled. This will promote the new city's comfort and service - mixed use development and active ground floor - and wide sidewalks, all of which will change the interface between the street space and the building.
Elimination of the need for a minimum number of parking spaces and elimination of tax incentives to encourage the donation of land for transport corridor will hinder mass use of motor vehicles. In this plan we also plan to allocate at least 30% of the funds to public transit, city bicycle lane network and pedestrian infrastructure Fundo de Desenvolvimento Urbano [Sao Paulo Urban Development Fund].
In order to promote development along major transportation routes, the new master plan solves the problem of urban life quality on a community scale. Support for complex buildings will increase employment opportunities near the home and reduce the need for electric travel. The center of the neighborhood is maintained, avoiding the addition of improper skyscrapers, destruction of the community, building height and floor limit. "
To manage core community development and promote growth in other areas, it is necessary to promote development near the main mobile centers. We must link the development of the whole city and the development of the transportation network. - Mr. Fernando de Mello Franco, Sao Paulo City Urban Development Director
Since 2006, ITDP has worked with the City of Sao Paulo to share best practices for sustainable transportation and urban development, improving urban habitability. The new master plan is perfectly consistent with the "eight principles" of ITDP and promotes vibrant and sustainable cities. Through seminars, new TOD criteria, and our own city (OCO), ITDP shared strategies and ideas for advancing Sao Paulo. In 2007, ITDP, Gehl Architects, and municipal officials cooperated in the study on the activation of Anhangabaú and Quadra das Artes in Sao Paulo city center. Through seminars and training, reports with city officials, ITDP is committed to developing regional sustainability capacity. Recently, the OCO activities of ITDP focused on the planning of Praçada Bandeira, which was built in the former square of downtown Sao Paulo and remodeled as a bus terminal.
"The new master plan is trying to solve the decentralization that is one of Sao Paulo's biggest challenges," he said. Sustainability and Transparency Initiative "There are 96 regions in the city that are inequitable in terms of socioeconomic services and public services." The difference is evident in the interactive map launched in the master plan. From the slums and homeless camps to the vacant buildings, you can see the worst life of Paulistan of 1.2 million people by clicking the mouse; cross the city and cross railway tracks, subway lines, Add a layer to show bus routes Add poor areas