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Inner-City Development in Megacities Between Degradation and Renewal: The Case of São Paulo

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The development of inner cities in Latin America during the twentieth ­century is characterised by three stages: growth and “beautification”, ­modernization according to the Athens Charter as well as degradation and renewal. During the first and second stages, the city centre of São Paulo has experienced a strong verticalisation and an orientation towards individual transport. Later on, due to several limitations, new inner-city fragments emerged southwest of the central area. In this third stage, the old city centre suffered manifold degradations in general and of the public space in ­particular. The latter has lost significance in favour of the private space. Different actors of the “formal city”, the “informal city” as well as the public sector are engaged to change the city centre. Based on their different interests, there are several conflicts concerning the treatment of the city centre. Against this background, constantly changing city governments took various renewal measures, focusing either on sectoral upgrading or on holistic, integrated rehabilitation. The possible future development of the inner city of São Paulo might follow one of three scenarios and depends not only on the local but also on the superordinate framework conditions.

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  1. Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Martin Coy & Tobias Töpfer

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    Frauke Kraas

  2. Mansara Housing Society, Vasundhra Enclave, Delhi, 110096, India

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Coy, M., Töpfer, T. (2014). Inner-City Development in Megacities Between Degradation and Renewal: The Case of São Paulo. In: Kraas, F., Aggarwal, S., Coy, M., Mertins, G. (eds) Megacities. International Year of Planet Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3417-5_8

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