O Minhocão

Antoine Séguin, High Density, Survey, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms.

Active Public Spaces, Brazil, Community, Infrastructure, Pedestrian realm, Photographic Atlas of the Cities, Residential, São Paulo, Soft mobility, Southern Coexistences, Survey.

“O Minhocão” : the nickname was given by the inhabitants of São Paulo to an airborne thoroughfare inaugurated in 1971 and closed to traffic since 1989 on evenings and weekends, it sums up by itself the transformation initiated in the Brazilian megalopolis. The “big worm” – as it can be translated – is a shifting place, which turn into a pedestrian area thanks to its users, everyone can roam, stroll, cross this road which is winding through buildings to enjoy it differently. That pedestrians recapture makes it possible to consider the city, and life in a new way, to see the world from another angle, and this book is the trace of this metamorphosis. o Minhocão shows how poetry has invasted what is the most prosaic.