Date: June 10th, 2008

Favelas of Sao Paulo: Part 2, Guarapiranga

10 June, 2008 (07:57) | Brazil, Local issues, Pictures, Sao Paulo, Slums | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s little adventure in my slum tourism looked at the first form of Sao Paulo’s slum upgrading: the Cingapura program of demolish-and-build-new walkup flats. 
 

A light switch, an ash tray, and a saint: the Brazilian office
 
But people don’t like flats as much as houses.  Walkup flats are incompatible with home-based businesses, […]