Downtown Special Zones of Social Interest 3 division into Homogeneous Zones

Abstract

This research had as purpose the production of thematic maps that aimed to constitute a support and understanding material of the urban form and its use inside the Special Social Interest Zones 3 of São Paulo. Therefore, we used the concept of homogeneous zones to assemble urban units that would configure, in its intrinsic and extrinsic links, the formal and functional dynamic of the city. Units that would also be part of a modular strategy of seizing the spatial phenomena specific to each place, but nonetheless connected to the urban tissue as a whole, indicating trends, morphologies, social configurations and environmental sustainability factors. By its extension and complexity the São Paulo metropolis suggests a heuristic method of approach, in the understanding that the synthesis-map is a powerful tool of social ownership and apprehension over the territory.