São Paulo has one of the world’s largest urban concentrations and is Brazil’s largest and most important city. In fact, in 2010, the 39 municipalities in the Greater São Paulo region accounted for circa 20% of the national Gross Domestic Product. Such a distinctive gigantism and complexity outlines the backdrop of the book organized by Eduardo Marques (CEM-USP), The São Paulo metropolis in the XXI century: spaces, heterogeneities, and inequalities, which attempts, through data analysis, to update knowledge on the various aspects related to recent changes in Sao Paulo’s city life. 

The book consists of thirteen chapters divided into three parts. The first part, "Economic dynamics, social structure, and the labor market”, maps the socio-economic transformations and social groups inhabiting each region of the metropolis as well as the inclusion of each of these groups within the labor market. The second part, "Demographic dynamics and residential segregation", focuses on the major current demographic dynamics in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, including migratory flows, analyzing the urban conditions under which the settlement of these populations occur and the strong segregation mechanisms, whether by race or social class, which are still very present in São Paulo’s urban fabric. In Part III, "The production of spaces in the metropolis ", there is an acute approach to public housing production, tracing the history of these housing programs and evaluating both the impact they have had in the metropolitan housing network and the housing conditions of the areas altered by the programs in contrast to the city’s most upscale areas.

By addressing issues such as mobility in the metropolis, mainly by roads and still very unequal, the silent segregation mechanisms and walled residential housing beginning in the late XX century, this paper updates the interpretative vision of a center-periphery structure, which may have been precise in the 1970s, but which does not account for the current ongoing processes. This leads to a far more complex, more complete, and more accurate picture of the metropolitan region of São Paulo at the beginning of the XXI century.

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In June, 2016 the international version is already available at Rutledge Publisher. Know more about this release here.

Notícias sobre o livro

Reviews, Feb/2016

The Metropolis of São Paulo in the XXI century, Spaces, Heterogeneities, and Inequalities

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Complicações: Segregação residencial e desigualdade, 20/8/2015

Residential segregation, separation of people in spaces according to social class and race, is increasing or decreasing in São Paulo? And the racial and gender inequality? These are some of the themes of this edition of Complicações show. Our guest is the livre-docente professor in the Department of Political Science at USP and researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Eduardo Marques.

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Study shows 'reconfiguration' of inequality in the metropolis, 5/11/2015

The periphery of São Paulo has become more heterogeneous, while the elite areas concentrate richer.

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Rearrangements in the Metropolis,  February / 2015

Population figures show that communities on the periphery of Greater São Paulo have become more heterogeneous, with middle and lower classes living closer to each other while the elites still occupy the more exclusive zones

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Brazil research - Sociologist investigates housing distribution in Sao Paulo, 3/6/2015

Known for its great social segregation, the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo has been showing new arrangements in its housing distribution. Eduardo Marques, professor of political science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, one of the Research, Innovation and Diffusion (Cepid) of FAPESP, was on Radio USP studio to talk about the study "social structure and segregation in São Paulo - changes in the 2000s."

One of the study's highlights is evidence that the periphery of Greater São Paulo is becoming more heterogeneous, with proximity between the middle and lower classes, while the spaces occupied by the elite have become more exclusive. The study will be part of "São Paulo 2010- spaces, heterogeneities and inequalities in the metropolis" to be launching this May.

 

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The new metropolis arrangements, March 4th, 2015

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