The landscape plans a contribution to research of the landscape in the municipality of São José dos Campos, state of São Paulo

Abstract

Landscapes in brazilian cities have generally resulted from the skill of the land planners to set aside, for preservation or environmental reasons, areas considered environmentally sensitive, unique from the landscape perspective, or potential leisure places. This attitude not only reduces the landscapes dimension to one of its many peculiarities, but also makes it harder to understand urban configuration as a complex process that includes the natural environment, the built environment, culture, technique, and the citizen, who is the subject, the player and the agent in building these spaces. At the same time, countless regulations, laws, statutes, and rules aimed at city building have attempted to use modern urban planning to arrange the city, to make it ascetic and beautiful, attractive for investment, and profitable. Authorities try to control and order that which is more apparent and visible. The result is a disconnected and disjointed city, which is not attractive to its inhabitants because it was designed by other changing and diverse interests. In this city, inhabitants exercise daily their possible consensus.