The contribution from garden-suburbs to the mitigation of urban heat islands in São Paulo

Abstract

This article deals with the garden suburbs of São Paulo and its contribution to the mitigation of urban heat islands. A comparative study, in progress, of these with other neighborhoods of traditional urban pattern is proposed to verify the existing differences in the urban-environmental parameters evaluated. Thus, it is intended to demonstrate that the investigated garden suburbs play a fundamental role in the mitigation of heat islands, in addition to providing technical subsidies that help defend their preservation as urban-environmental heritage, since they are constantly threatened by the real estate market. It is believed that, by extracting positive parameters from the garden suburbs, they can be incorporated into urban intervention projects, in the revision of the current zoning law and master plan in São Paulo, and in the awareness of the local community and leaders, bringing innumerable benefits such as temperature reduction, energy savings, reduction of atmospheric pollution and floods, improvement of citizens health and quality of life.

Keywords: heat islands, garden-suburbs, townscape, climate change.