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This chapter presents a process of planning and design that has been developed for São Carlos, a medium-sized city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This process is accomplished based on the potential relationship between the fields of knowledge of green infrastructure and landscape architecture. This work sought to answer contemporary questions related to the value of infrastructure and its alignment with global and local values and quality of life issues. Moreover, it looked for solutions related to the culture and the community of São Carlos. The approach was based on the strategies suggested via green infrastructure advocates and was used in the working process, testing the interrelations of technical responses with the places of intervention. Through the development of the work, it was possible to ascertain the role played by aesthetic and cultural dimensions while designing the proposal. This argument is presented in the first part of this text, which reestablishes the contact and relationship of the pioneers of the field of landscape architecture with the Arts. The second part presents the methodological strategies that structure the planning and design developed by the group. The drawing process attempted to associate technical, social, cultural, and aesthetic subjects: a proposal for a landscape experience formulated in contact with reality. The proposal synthesizes information and demands gathered by an interdisciplinary team and includes investigations of documents, as well as the contact with community leaders. The formal result is a key addition to the debates held with the community and in the formulation of public policies that endeavor to ensure the construction and maintenance of the plan and its design. This article seeks to demonstrate how green infrastructure and landscape architecture can be related strategically in contemporary production of places.
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Schenk, L.B.M. (2023). Landscape, Infrastructure, and Aesthetic Dimension: Methodological Strategy for a Medium-Sized Brazilian City. In: Gomes Sant'Anna, C., Mell, I., Schenk, L.B.M. (eds) Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities. Landscape Series, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18332-4_9
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