An experience of the landscape approach as a procedure to obtain design guidelines: the São José dos Campos, SP case study

Abstract

Specialists have suggested different ways and tools to intervene in urban spaces in order to minimize or remedy dichotomies. Proposed plans mostly result in specific and disjointed efforts that are inefficient in themselves. This article suggests investigating the relations between anthropic interventions and environmental support, as well as how one modifies, interacts, and shapes the other. It also considers how these processes affect the landscape and suggests ways to use these relations to identify forms and levels of intervention with the firm commitment of restoring and ensuring quality of life. This article also discusses one of the many ways landscape can be discussed based on applicable procedures, and presents a case study to illustrate how this approach is employed.