Ribeira da Granja, daylighting streams in Portugal
As a pilot project, the process started in the Ribeira da Granja made the practice to bury the rivers and make them run through the pipes water under the bridge now. “Portugal is no longer ‘tubing’ rivers,” says Pedro Teiga.
Interconnected parks
Brazil can take full advantage of the rivers to create interconnected parks along them, bringing more leisure, active mobility and valuing the landscape.
Daylight streams refreshes the air
There are many reasons to daylight rivers, such as the contact of the people with the river, the return of the fauna and flora. But one of them is quite persuasive: air conditioning.
Blue and Green Infrastructure
The Blue and Green Infrastructure proposes to solve the functional problems of a city in a more economic way, privileging the environmental preservation and benefiting the people.
Interview: Humanizing cities
Cities as human habitats: architect Carolina Nunes bets on knowledge to improve people’s quality of life
Cherry trees in Bonn
Every year in early spring, the cherry trees turn the streets of Bonn into a sea of pink flowers.
The Essen revolution
The city of Essen has reinvented itself, and the Emscher River is a key point of this new approach.
Water and Urban Planning: Lessons from the contemporary Netherlands to Brazil
Three ongoing projects in the Netherlands: Water Squares, The River as a Tidal Park and Room for the River.