The document discusses the Capiribe Park project in Recife, Brazil. It aims to reconnect the city with its waters by creating an ecological corridor along the Capiribe River, increasing green spaces and native vegetation, and improving water quality. The project uses flexible design guidelines, community engagement, and prototyping to create public spaces that improve quality of life and foster social inclusion. Its goals are to honor the relationship between nature, green spaces, and the city through inclusive and sustainable long-term planning.

1. CAPIBARIBE PARK
Reinventing the City through its Waters
Circe Gama Monteiro
INCITI – Research and Innovation for the Cities
UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco

2. Recife

3. THE CITY DNA
 A TROPICAL and water centered
city nestled in an ESTUARY
 Founded by the Dutch with
Portuguese colonization has rich
URBAN HERITAGE
 Capital of a Metropolitan Region
with 3 million inhabitants, the city
has a RADIAL structure that
hinders mobility
 It dwells a MULTICULTURAL
society marked by INEQUALITY
and social SEGREGATION but
reckon as CREATIVE people

4.  The river was the city’s MAIN
drive of EXPANSION
 The buildings FACED the river
 SYMBOLIC ATTACHMENT and
LANDSCAPE APPRECIATION:
Poetry and Music
THE CITY DNACAPIBARIBE RIVER
BEFORE

5.  CAR CENTERED city
 The buildings TURNED THEIR
BACKS TO THE RIVER
 The river became INVISIBLE and
POLLUTED and FORGOTTEN by
city planning
THE CITY DNACAPIBARIBE RIVER
NOW

6. Recife, BRAZIL

7. CAPIBARIBE PARK
Recife, BRAZIL

9. THE CITY DNA
GLOBAL SEEDS
THE LOCAL
 GLOBAL understanding to inform
LONG TERM PLANNING
 LOCAL projects to incite
TRANSFORMATION
 The shared dream of Recife as a
GREEN CITY by 2037
 Sustainability is only possible with
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

10. EMERGENT
URBANISM
ACADEMY + LOCAL
GOVERNMENT =
URBAN INNOVATIONS
RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT
OF SOLUTIONS +
ACTIVATION
 Simple flexible design guidelines
 Negotiation of Proposals
 Prototyping
 Metabolism

11.  To reconcile the CITY with NATURE
 To HONOR the place of waters
 To reckon the relation of GREEN and BLUE SYSTEMS and the CITY
DESIGN SENSITIVE
TO NATURE  Ecologic Corridor: river CONNECTING atlantic forest and
mangrove system
 The RECUPERATION of native vegetation in the city
 WATER FILTRATION and the increase of porous surfaces
CONCEPT
PROJECT

12. THE CITY DNA
DESIGN SENSITIVE
TO EXPERIENCE
 Design aiming QUALITY OF URBAN LIFE
 CHOICES of mobility
 SHORTENING spatial distances
 CREATING PLACES with OPPORTUNITIES AND VITALITY
CONCEPT
PROJECT

13. DESIGN SENSITIVE
TO PEOPLE
CONCEPT
PROJECT
 A city that EMBRACES NATURE is HEALTHY
and SECURE
 Public spaces of ENCOUNTER and INCLUSION
to experience a HAPPY CITY
 Events and activities sharing NEW
ATTITUDES
 COLLABORATIVE projects creating NEW
OPPORTUNITIES in the city

14. DESIGN GUIDELINES

15. DESIGN GUIDELINES

16. DESIGN GUIDELINES

17. DESIGN GUIDELINES

18. DESIGN GUIDELINES

19. NEGOTIATION
 OPEN DIALOGUE and URBAN
PROVOCATIONS
 CONNECTING with communities
 INVOLVEMENT and PARTNERSHIP
 ENGAGEMENT
 Strong COMMUNICATION network
(Facebook, Blogs, Whatsapp, Telegram,
Twitter, Instagram)

20. URBAN ACTIVATION
 The project is about the PROCESS,
not the product
 LIBERATING and UNCOVERING
places
 PROTOTYPING of solutions
 OCCUPATION and EVALUATION
 IMPLEMENTATION
 Strategies of CONSERVATION and
COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT

21.  LEGISLATION incited by a plan and
a vision
 Incentives and rewarding
STRATEGIES
 MONITORING of use to embrace
new possibilities
 New forms of MANAGEMENT
 SOCIAL ASSESSMENT - The Urban
Happiness Index
 Academic Partnership - knowledge
and drive for LONG TERM POLICY
 Involvement of PRIVATE
INVESTORS
THE CITY DNAMETABOLISM

22. CAPIBARIBE PARK
2016-2020
 Plan for ENVIRONMENTAL
RECUPERATION
 Urbanization project for SPATIAL
INTEGRATION and SOCIAL
INCLUSION
 Articulation for a MULTI MODAL
MOBILITY SYSTEM
 Plan for COLLABORATIVE
MANAGEMENT and ACTIVE
POPULAR ENGAGEMENT