This year, Salvador de Bahia, the first brazilian capital, has completed 460 years. However, according to Paulo Ormindo, chairman of the Bahia’s section of IAB - Institute of Architects of Brazil, there was no reason for celebration.

With more than 4 thousand inhabitants per square kilometer, the “Soteropolis” has a housing deficit of 100 thousand dwellings. But the new PDDU (Master Plan for Urban Development), instead of addressing this deficit, only served to increase the imbalance and meet the ambitions of the major real state companies that destroy the coastline and the green areas.

With a new, overbilled, underdimensioned subway, which seems to take longer to be built than the Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. A chaotic road network well behind city’s needs. Wastage, lack of planning, endless traffic jams, lack of security, a green and historical heritage in an advanced state of degradation. Meanwhile, plans to spend millions of reais in the construction of a replacement for the Fonte Nova stadium and of a bridge to connect the capital to the island of Itaparica.

All these are symptoms of an imminent collapse that is coming to Salvador, according to Paulo Ormindo. The architect, however, not only regrets this depressing reality: he also makes an appeal to all those interested in saving the nearly unsavable Salvador (which means “saviour” in Portuguese).

Salvemos Salvador (”Let’s save Salvador), this is his motto! Let us spread this calling!

To read the full text of Paul Ormindo in IAB-BA site, click here.

On Twitter: #salvemsalvador

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