Reading and planning with the landscape: a study in the Água Comprida basin in Bauru-SP

Observing the strictly functional urban planning process of contemporary cities, present work proposes, through study a cutout in watershed Água Comprida stream Bauru-SP, to analyze relationship between clear and constructed spaces along watercourse. For this, it was sought legislation, historical context, related bibliographies perception space, understand how this rupture occurred built natural, man nature, which generated an space disconnected from green areas. Therefore, seeks explore landscape architecture can help understanding cities as unit, bringing together economic, sociocultural environmental processes.