São Paulo, city-region: constitution and development dynamics of the São Paulo macrometropolis
This article deals with the emergence of the city-region in São Paulo (Brazil), called ‘macrometropolis’, and highlights some of the challenges facing this new territorial or spatial configuration in terms of globalisation and governance. It also stresses the productive changes that gave rise to it and sheds light on the constituent dynamics of the macrometropolis at different scales. The article affirms that metropolitan problems can no longer be interpreted without taking into account the new determinants of the macrometropolis of São Paulo, which implies considering the interaction of the metropolis with other urban centres bearing social, economic and environmental singularities.
São Paulo, metrópole corporativa
14.00 The fundamental paradigm of city growth model, that contributes to the formation of hollow spaces, especially when the machinery of government fails to provide the population, with essential services, is explained by the Author. By examining the problem of the truly Brazilian way in which, after 1964, State action as concerns urban development was performed, he stresses the fact that the Housing National Bank (Banco Nacional de Habitacao - BNH) has played a decisive role in the configuration of the corporative metropolis, primarily concerned with solving the problems affecting big enterprises and considering all the other as negligible ones. The writer then addresses his attention to the question of the financial Crisis in the City of Sao Paulo, pointing out that a lacking in resources for public works of a social character is the' consequence of their utilization for economic projects. Based on data collected in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, the Author finds out the fixation of populational masses in peripheral areas was not accompanied by the creation or improvement of an adequate system of mass transport, thus bringing about the immobility for most of the low-income populations, turning the city into a series of ghettoes, transforming its fragmentation into disintegration. The Author finally concludes that increasing prices of transportation to peripheral areas have an impact over the cost of land in the center, and this rising cost strengthens to trend toward an even greater territorial extension of the urban complex. Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ 
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