São Paulo

Felipe Correa is an associate professor of urban design and Director of the Urban Design Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. An architect and urbanist, he has developed numerous international projects through his practice, Somatic Collaborative. His previous books are Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America, Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography, and A Line in the Andes, which won first prize in the Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism Category at the 2014 Pan American Architecture Biennale.

• Foreword / PrefÁcioIntroduÇÃo / IntroductionSÃo Paulo: Models of Urban Growth / SÃo Paulo: modelos de crescimento urbanoCollective Living in South America: A Primer / HabitaÇÕes coletivas na AmÉrica do Sul: guia introdutÓrioInfraestrutura de mobilidade: campanha do projeto urbano / Mobility Infrastructure: Driver of the Urban ProjectUrban Plans and Visions: A Genealogy of SÃo Paulo / Planejamentos e visÕes urbanas: a genealogia de SÃo PauloAn Evolutionary Plan: Connecting the City to the River / Plano evolutivo: conexÃo da cidade com o rio

[Presents] a complex analysis of the growth of SÄo Paulo…offering tools for more sustainable development in the future. (Abitare) Felipe Correa's impressive, heavily illustrated 'graphic biography' of SÃo Paulo thoroughly conveys the layered complexity of the city's physical past and present, allowing someone like me, who hasn't set foot on Brazilian soil, to start to understand the place. (A Daily Dose of Architecture) Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography/Uma Biografia Gráfica is an exceptional addition to Correa's growing list of publications and an exemplar of urban analysis and graphic communication. Although its focus is on a single city and aspects that can help it evolve meaningfully into the future, its lessons are applicable well beyond the boundaries of São Paulo to other contemporary cities that suffer from many of the same challenges—from outdated mono-functional infrastructure to derelict post-industrial lands ready for reenvisioning. (Spacing) [São Paulo] should be celebrated as a valuable provocation for São Paulo's most critical development conundrum, which is how to position the city as conserving of hydrological systems for perpetuity, while redeveloping adjacent industrial tracts to improve connectivity and urban livability. (Latin American Research Review) For those with a taste for clean design and visual aids, São Paulo: A Graphic Biography is both informative and aesthetically pleasing. Through words, photographs and illustrations, this graphic biography offers a unique analysis of the growth and sustainability of São Paulo alongside beautifully designed layouts and images. (CNN Underscored) [São Paulo's] focus on interscalarity allows for a remarkably comprehensive analysis of Sao Paulo's geometric and organizational complexity and this alone makes it an important resource to both professionals and students of architecture, urban design or urban planning, who are interested in Sao Paulo. All the images and maps are of extremely high quality...what makes this book valuable is that it not only carefully situates some of Sao Paulo's most complex physical problems, it also articulates ambitious, but undoubtedly doable, design proposals which, if they materialize, can significantly improve Sao Paulo's residents' quality of life. (Journal of Urban Design) There is much to commend in [São Paulo]. Along with its stylish design, the book is chock-full of thematic maps, architectural models, analytical diagrams, and historical and contemporary photographs—all of which parallel and enliven the text…São Paulo: A Graphic Biography serves as a useful reference work—and a beautifully illustrated one—with an emphasis on evolving urban forms and patterns of growth. From that angle, Correa provides important insights and possibilites for a notoriously complex metropolis...Overall, this is an impressive survey of the past, present, and future of the Paulista capital region. (Journal of Latin American Geography)