Megacities

The current pattern of the East Zone of São Paulo resulted from an urban reorganization in  metropolitan scale. A process of adaptation of the metropolis to the transistion for a global city status, causing deep disorganization in the occupation of the consolidated areas. Interventions in large-scale that rearticuled   the sector with the remainder of the city and, with this, had reconfigured the very space structure of the area.

The  metropolitan dimension that East Zone sudenly assumed   conflicted with its local organization, provoking a full disarticulation and disaggregation of consolidated urban tissues.

The urban systems implanted by these interventions only have   functional and urban meaning in the vast metropolitan territory, eroding all local organicity. It is a situation that places the question of the great scale. The recent processes of urban reorganization, that have happened in some international metropolises, oppose, for its proper enormity, the traditional conceptions of location and urban space.

The dimensions of the projects implanted urban-architectural that escape to our perception. The impact of the scale dissolves all perception of space continuity. Megalopolises  confrot them with what does not have limits, with the immensely great, with bigness.