{"id":68014,"date":"2024-05-11T16:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68014"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:53:34","slug":"floods-and-flooding-will-be-part-of-our-lives-says-brazilian-architect-and-urbanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68014","title":{"rendered":"Floods and flooding \u2018will be part of our lives,\u2019 says Brazilian architect and urbanist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Floods and flooding \u2018will be part of our lives,\u2019 says Brazilian architect and urbanist<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The climate crisis has increased the number of extreme disasters<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Civilians help with rescues in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the floods that hit the state.\u00a0Photo<\/a>\u00a0by Alex Rocha\/PMPA, used with permission<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, is going through the worst climate disaster in its history. From April 28 onward, a\u00a0<\/span>major<\/span>\u00a0part of its territory, about the size of the United Kingdom, has been submerged\u00a0<\/span>underwater<\/span><\/a>. The heavy rains soon transformed into violent floods,\u00a0<\/span>impacting<\/span><\/a>\u00a0over 1.4 million people, with at least\u00a0<\/span>100 people confirmed dead<\/span><\/a>, according to reports published May 8. Entering its sixth day of flooding, the state capital, Porto Alegre, is now facing a\u00a0<\/span>shortage of drinking water<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under such critical circumstances, it is crucial to<\/span>\u00a0understand how this situation escalated so rapidly and consider how intentional\u00a0city planning might prevent it from repeating itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mariana Bernardes<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is an architect and urbanist from Passo Fundo, in the northern portion of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is also among the\u00a0<\/span>425 out of 497<\/span><\/a>\u00a0affected, with floods isolated to\u00a0<\/span>certain regions<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of the city<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernardes\u2019 work<\/span>\u00a0focuses on humanizing structural problems with planning, technical responsibility, and social commitment. In an interview with Global Voices, she spoke about what could have\u00a0<\/span>been done<\/span>\u00a0to prevent the floods in Brazil and what can\u00a0<\/span>be done<\/span>\u00a0as communities look to collective reconstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Global Voices (GV): The floods in southern Brazil demonstrate a series of failures and omissions, especially by the State. How could a humanized view of architecture and urbanism have prevented parts of this ongoing tragedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Floods and flooding \u2018will be part of our lives,\u2019 says Brazilian architect and urbanist The climate crisis has increased the number of extreme disasters Civilians help with rescues in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the floods that hit the state.\u00a0Photo\u00a0by Alex Rocha\/PMPA, used with permission Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90,34530,1001,34528,34529,14294],"class_list":["post-68014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-brazil","tag-extreme-disasters","tag-flooding","tag-giovana-fleck","tag-global-voices","tag-heavy-rains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68015,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014\/revisions\/68015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}