O modelo de desenvolvimento urbano de São Paulo precisa ser revertido

Water Supply Basins of São Paulo Metropolitan Region: Hydro-Climatic Characteristics of the 2013–2015 Water Crisis

“…The SPMR is Brazil's most important economic and industrial center. It occupies an area of 7946 km 2 , of which one third is urbanized [33][34][35]. Its population rose from 2 million inhabitants in 1940 to 12.6 million in 1980 and to nearly 20 million in 2014, making it the world's fourth most populous metropolis nowadays [9].…”

Guest Editorial

“…Disorderly settlement within the cities is a result of the lack of a logic of collaborative governance. Urban, functional, and social inequality has deepened and resulted in divided and segregated metropolises (Bonduki 2011). Urban spots that expand horizontally and form most of the outskirts of the city are built basically as a result of occupations of empty land by low-income groups, implementation of illegal subdivisions built and sold irregularly, housing for low-income population built by the public authorities, and precarious and informal settlements such as slums and many popular neighborhoods, which make up the immense urban peripheries (Jacobi 1999;Nakano 2011).…”

Reversal of Fortunes?: São Paulo Youth Redirect Urban Development

“…The vibrant work of Brazilian scholars and public intellectuals, such as Nabil Bonduki (2011), Raquel Rolnik (1997 and Nicolau Sevcenko (1993), has been instrumental in tracing the marketing and real estate carrousel that constitutes urban development in São Paulo, without losing the strand of "utopianism" (Bonduki 2011), which is essential to urbanism. What these and other urban studies scholars and practitioners have pinpointed is the tension between the belief in the city and the right to the city.…”