Fig. 1 a 4, from left, cockwise: South Hemisphere: Brazil, São Paulo

State: Sorocaba City, c. 60 miles from São Paulo, Capital. Macro-

Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. Source: Google Earth, 2016.

How Sorocaba City evolved:

The name Sorocaba, derived from the native

Tupy-guarani word “Vossoroca”, (which means

“thorn land”), after the local type of the soil.

The main local river was also named after the

same word: Sorocaba River, which determined

the location for the settlement of descendents of

local native leaders with the first Portuguese

during sec. XVI.

Fig. 5: Vossoroca.

Source: www.mma.gov.br/img/ascom/fotos/gilbuesg.jpg, acesso em 25/março/2006.

The main streets and avenues of old downtown

derived from the local topography and the

legendary Peabiru (pré-Colombian path to the

“Land without evil”), an ancient native path which

departed from Atlantic Ocean to Peru

Fig. 6: O Caminho do Peabiru. Source:

http://www.gilsoncamargo.com.br/blog/o-caminho-do-peabiru/ , acesso em 15/maio/2016.

DESIGN CITIES: ASSIGNMENT I – Design Concepts That Have Shaped SOROCABA: 1) NATIVE’S PATH PEABERU (sec. XVI, XVII). By Sandra Y. S. Lancas, Architect

and Urbanist, Ph.D. student, FAU-USP. (1/3)

Metropolitan Region

of São Paulo, BRAZIL

Fig. 10: View of Largo de São Bento. Source: googlewww.google.maps.com.br, acesso em maio/2016.

Fig. 11. Quinzinho de Barros Park Museum. Source: www.sorocaba cidade

interativa3d.com.br. Fig. 12: Dinamic urban sprawl of Sorocaba at the

beginning of XXI century. Source: MACEDO, SOUZA and GALENDER, s/d.

Fig. 8: Sorocaba City, by Jean Baptiste Debret, 1827.

Fig. 8: The City of Sorocaba. Unknown author, published in MEDEIROS, F.

(1864). Source: http://ospaesdebarrossaopaolo.blogspot.com.br/2011/12/itu-e-

sorocaba-origens-de-familia.html, accessed may/2016.

Fig. 9: Downtown Sorocaba, beginning of XX century. Drawing by Renato

Sêneca de Sá Fleury. Source: LANÇAS, 2007.

DESIGN CITIES: ASSIGNMENT I – Design Concepts That Have Shaped SOROCABA: 2) COLONIAL VILLAGE (séc. XVIII, XIX). By Sandra Y. S. Lancas,

Architect, Ph.D. student, FAU-USP. (2/3)

The “Casario” (old type of housing) obeyed the Portuguese instructions for the first settlements, built after

the strategic military Portuguese engineers instructions, for the dimensions for the streets, squares, which side

of the street to be occupied first, according to the solar position. The caracteristics of the casario followed the

best way for the construction survive the pouring rain, warm weather and used the materials from the site : clay,

trees and its parts, in a technique called “taipa-de-pilão”. Some of these constructions survive until nowadays,

like the ones of fig.10 and 11, as well the natives pathways.

After the consolidation of the village through XVII to the XIX centuries, the city expanded its occupation on the

territority, limited between Raposo Tavares and Castelo Branco Road; and at the Final of the XX century, the

urban dinamics was like depicted on the figure number 12. By then, population reached more than 500.000

habitants. Sorocaba’s promixity to Sao Paulo City and metropolitan region (c. 64 miles) allowed many profess-

ionals to move in, commuting everyday to the jobs in the capital, while the families remain in the city.

CAMPOLIM PARK: a garden neighboorhood completed at 1985: shaped the south portion of Sorocaba, and its

regional and national economical importance, amongst other sectors, like commercial, industrial and services.

Fig. 12 e 13. Aerial and local views of Parque Campolim, south neighbourhood of Sorocaba City, located at km100 of Raposo Tavares Road (SP 270). Fonte: Wikimapia.org, and Google Earth, access Aug/2016.

Fig. 14. Parque Campolim, left: view towards south (Raposo Tavares Road). Fig. 15. Graphic of Medium Price (BR$/m2) of Parque Campolim Neighboorhoord, and Sorocaba City (yellow line). (July/2016). Fig. 16: Di-

gital cover for telephonic and internet access in the metropolitan regions of Sorocaba, Campinas and Sao Paulo, capital. Source: Fonte: ANATEL, 2013.

DESIGN CITIES: ASSIGNMENT I – Design Concepts That Have Shaped SOROCABA: 2) Campolim Park - Garden neighboorhood (late sec. XX). By Sandra Y. S. Lancas,

Architect, Ph.D. student, FAU-USP. (3/3)