Landscape, memory, and city: the new Mogi das Cruzes station

Abstract

City and body in motion. Understand the railway line as a frontier, not as an endpoint, but as the beginning of another path. Not only as a line of cut and separation but also as a seam and narrative of the historical time’s continuity. Which qualities of the existing limits should be preserved or recreated? How to restructure the cities’ landscape giving it the necessary sense of urbanity? To be, to contemplate, to walk. Making crossings possible seems to be the essential starting point to build a place: a space more attractive to the eyes and other senses
intrinsic to human nature.