The city of São Paulo is known, among others, for its asphalt, for its skyline of buildings, for its skyscrapers and mirrored towers, for its buried or canalized and polluted rivers, for the excess of cars and for its traffic. The urbanization of the capital of the state, which was induced by industrialization, occurred in an accelerated manner and without concern for nature. Environmental movements, which gained worldwide traction in the 1970s, unleashed a series of new demands, both by the citizen who desires and claims green areas and new policies of conservation in his or her city, and the consumer who came to desire products that causes less environmental impact, like biodegradable bags and less pollutant means of transportation. Nowadays, these demands have been transforming the urban aspects of São Paulo and the green feature has become an element of space valorization. This research aims to comprehend how demands for a green environment transform the space and life of the dwellers in a workingclass suburban area of the city, based on the public policies of conservation at the Vargem Grande quarter, located in the south zone, in the district of Parelheiros. Vargem Grande, a division of land into lots considered illegal by public power, was established in 1989 inside the Colônia Crater. The crater was put under government trust by the cultural heritage protection agency of the State of São Paulo as geological patrimony in 2003, for being an area formed by the impact of a celestial body on Earth. Besides that, the quarter is located inside the wellspring conservation area of the Billings dam and the Environmental Protection Area (EPA) of Capivari Monos. There are more than 17 laws that determine how this area should be occupied. Around 50 thousand people live in the quarter. Based on the report of some of the dwellers about their everyday life we seek to comprehend how these policies and the struggle for housing in the city relate to each other, and how the discourse on nature conservation influences the production and reproduction of both the space and life of its inhabitants.
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