Lucia Maria Machado Bógus

São Paulo, uma metrópole desigual

The contradictions in post-industrial urban development, mainly regarding the so-called third world metropolis in a globalized economy, enhance old social di...

SÃO PAULO: O CALEIDOSCÓPIO URBANO

As contradicoes no desenvolvimento urbano pos-industrial, sobretudo em metropoles do chamado Terceiro Mundo numa economia globalizada, acentuam velhas desigualdades sociais e abrem as portas para novas especializacoes, tanto entre as camadas ricas como entre as pobres. O presente trabalho apresenta uma primeira visao da segregacao socioespacial. A estrutura intra-urbana do Municipio de Sao Paulo concentra suas camadas mais ricas nos aneis mais centrais, deixando que a pobreza domine a periferia. E o retrato de uma metropole excludente, sem urbanidade, um tecido urbano em que se percebem enclaves de riqueza e de pobreza, no meio de uma malha indistinta, tecido fragmentado, verdadeira colcha de retalhos.

São Paulo como patchwork: unindo fragmentos de uma cidade segregada

A partir de um conjunto de estudos acerca da Regiao Metropolitana paulista, em que se busca compreender os condicionantes da estruturacao espacial, das desigualdades sociais e da segregacao, emergiu a necessidade de explorar com mais detalhe a situacao do municipio-nucleo no que diz respeito a esses aspectos acima mencionados.

Transformacoes metropolitanas: Sao Paulo e Salvador

This paper aims to discuss the impacts of the globalization process on Brazilian metropolises based on a comparative analysis of the recent trajectory of Sao Paulo and Salvador, which provides rich information for this discussion. Starting from the current literature on this topic, the paper analyzes the extent to which the phenomena associated with this process are leading to greater changes in the social and urban structures of these agglomerations. It is noted, with this analysis, that they present some stability next to some changes, whose diversity and complexity are not being addressed by the most current theoretical formulations.

Migração na metrópole

Based on observed tendencies of migrational movements in Sao Paulo area, the text characterizes the profiles of the migrants flows in this specific metropolitan region, as well as the observed changes in these profiles through the last decades. Furthermore, it analyzes the differences between capital resident migrants and those living in other metropolitan municipalities, according to each municipalitys specificities regarding the working resident population characteristics and the specific influence of migration.

Changing urbanization patterns in the Brazilian metropolis

The international literature on the impacts of globalization on large cities has insistently pointed to the increase in residential segregation. Three mechanisms have been identified as the causes of this phenomenon: globalization, which by disseminating neoliberal ideas throughout the world, generated changes in the regulatory models and paradigms that guide urban policy; institutional reforms toward market liberalization and the property and housing market were undertaken in various countries; real estate prices became the central mechanism for distributing the population throughout the city, reinforcing income inequality as the determinant of urban spatial organization. At the same time, privatization exacerbated the growing inequality of access to the services and infrastructure that ensure urban well-being, especially with regard to quality. The wealthier areas, where those with greater purchasing power concentrate, have at their disposal an abundant supply of goods and services, whereas the areas populated by the poor are supplied with inferior goods and services. Further, globalization caused structural changes originating in the transformation of the productive base of the cities, creating trends toward social polarization. The social structure of the great metropolises is no longer represented by a pyramid, and is expressed instead by an hourglass where the middle positions narrow while the extremities widen. Simultaneously, there has been an increase in the distance between the average incomes of the higher and lower strata.

Migrantes haitianos e bolivianos na cidade de São Paulo: transformações econômicas e territorialidades migrantes

In recent years, changes in the international division of labor have promoted repercussions on the dynamics of international migration, such as the emergence of South South migrations. In this sense, the city of Sao Paulo has become a destination for many new international immigrants and asylum seekers. This article aims to analyze the social insertion of Haitian and Bolivian immigrants in Sao Paulo. The methodology contemplates theoretical revision on contemporary migrations and territory, as well as field work of a qualitative nature in the social spaces of the city of Sao Paulo with a greater presence of immigrant workers of these nationalities.

Habitação em centros históricos: um desafio à integração das políticas públicas

The paper assumes that housing, understood as an integrated public policy, is a key component in the rehabilitation process of the central areas of cities, including their historic downtown. It proposes to study, through the examples of the cities of Salvador, in Brazil, and Porto, in Portugal, the sets of conditions that have enabled to structure ongoing public programs or policies, with significant results in rehabilitation and preservation processes. Furthermore, the paper aims to contextualize programmatic formulations and conceptual foundations associated with them in order to understand the relevance of the urban planning practices that make up the housing issue, their forms of articulation, and impacts on processes of sociability and functional revitalization of historic downtowns.