Challenges and innovation in the architecture and urbanism residency: working to overcome the gap between planning and implementation

Abstract

The Residency Program in Architecture and Urbanism: Urban Planning and Management, is a proposition of a community outreach initiative outlined in the University of São Paulo’s Statute. Aimed at deepening the knowledge and social action of the architect-urbanist through a set of academically supervised practical and theoretical activities, inspired by the Healthcare Residency model. Consists on work-education program, during one year, after completion of the graduation in Architecture and Urbanism. It allows for the young professional to act on public policy development activities that intervenes in the social and spatial reality of Brazilian cities, with a core axis on planning and public management capacitation.