São Paulo, a City of Water

Saide Kahtouni received her doctoral degree in Theory, Fundamentals and History of Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo University, Brazil, in 2003. A Senior PhD Researcher, she served as a university professor for more than 20 years and has been active in urbanistic and landscaping design, as well as in the history of cities, correlating landscape and technologies from a historical-environmental perspective. She is the author of the books Cidade das águas (2004) and Paisagem e Infraestrutura no espaço da sociedade (2016).