Two Floodplains, Two Parks, One Resilience

Abstract

The public parks of Várzea do Carmo (1922) and Ibirapuera (1954) were developed by the municipality of São Paulo, in the floodplains of Carmo and Santo Amaro, respectively, with national and international repercussions. In the 1970s, this first case had its closure decreed, while the second, consolidated to the present day as the main municipal public park. The intention is to extract historical-historiographic and project indicatiors from the landscape design guidelines for the implementation of these areas, that may have influenced the urban obsolescence and resilience of these public spaces. Analyzing the bibliography and the technical drawings it is possible to extract values that subsidized the decision-making in the physical, political and social spheres of each proposition, forming indicators that allow measuring some of the reasons that led these public spaces to such disparate destinations, decades after its implementation.