By C. Peixoto-Mehrtens
This booklet specializes in how the political, cultural, and technical networks in the box of engineering supplied the gap in which a major expert heart classification prospered within the urban of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the advance of recent Brazil.
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Thus, the majority of public works were state responsibility. 83 The SOP administered public works, supervised railway enterprises’ concessions, marked lands, and planned the state geographical and geologic charts. The SOP was also responsible for basic works (water, sewage, and cleaning the rivers), for which it had the help of departments and commissions specially created after 1892. 84 In the 1890s, the continuous process of centralization at the local level brought about the Municipal Works Division (Intendencia de Obras Municipais, an embryonic DOP) in 1892 and the POLI in 1893.
Buchard’s districting of neighborhoods and Lima’s Paulista Avenue construction) followed the city’s geographical circumstances and topographical conditions to select the highest and driest places. Rather than following this pattern, Cia City invested in the city’s most inauspicious and notoriously poor areas in the southwestern region. The southwest region’s main path, Rebouças Avenue (called then Itapirassu Street), was customarily avoided. People preferred a parallel route, Cardinal Arco Verde Street, because rainwater used to concentrate in such a manner that Itapirassu Street would become a lake during times of flooding.
Buchard’s districting of neighborhoods and Lima’s Paulista Avenue construction) followed the city’s geographical circumstances and topographical conditions to select the highest and driest places. Rather than following this pattern, Cia City invested in the city’s most inauspicious and notoriously poor areas in the southwestern region. The southwest region’s main path, Rebouças Avenue (called then Itapirassu Street), was customarily avoided. People preferred a parallel route, Cardinal Arco Verde Street, because rainwater used to concentrate in such a manner that Itapirassu Street would become a lake during times of flooding.