The Bar�o de Itapetininga Street: A case study in the S�o Paulo City Old District

Abstract
Departing from a single and relatively recent street in the old district of São Paulo, it is possible to follow the most important aspects of the city centre renovation in the last two centuries. Based on historical sources and city archives researches, its whole process of transformation was reconstructed.
The way the land was developed by opening new streets and the resulting lots subdivision established the first limits for the area occupation. This pattern, however, would be transformed in the years to come by two different periods of construction improvements that completely changed that inherited setting: the first, from which some remnants still survived, corresponds to a building environment of buildings of five or six floors built by new construction techniques based on the brick constructions improvements of the first years of XX Century. The second, although had started in the thirties, belongs to our time due to modern construction achievements and vertical circulation facilities. Nevertheless, both patterns where conditioned by original urban set and city regulations.
The research carried out lead to the belief that the city is built by urban constraints as well as by building construction improvements.

Marcos José Carrilho
Architect, Professor, Doctor in History of Architecture FAUUSP

Paulo Sérgio Del Negro
Architect, Professor, Master in History of Architecture UNICAMP

Mara Lucia da Silva
Architecture undergraduate student

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