Category: Sao Paulo

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, […]

Favelas of Sao Paulo: Part 1, Cingapura

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

A while back I spent 4½ days in Sao Paulo – my first time in Brazil – getting an immersion tour in why and where and how the municipality and state of Sao Paulo have tackled slum upgrading and urbanization. 

 
 
The biggest city in South America, with 10,000,000 people in the city limits and over […]