Dos surtos urbanísticos do final do século XIX ao uso das várzeas pelo Plano de Avenidas

Abstract

This text introduces to a critical reading of modern urbanism (progressist and culturalist); and its influence on the formation of the denominated the first “paulists urbanists”; as its respectives proposals and effectives urbans interventions realized in São Paulo, from XIX century to the years 1940. To be detached the Avenues Plan by Prestes Maia and the use of plain of Tietê river.