City report: Slums and Poverty: São Paulo

Mariana Fix

Pedro Arantes

Giselle Tanaka

Londres: DPU/UN-Habitat, 2003. Também disponível em: www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/saopaulo

Brazil is one of a group of poor countries with high levels of urbanisation. In 1940, 31 per cent of the country’s population lived in cities. In 2000 that figure reached 81 per cent – 138 million people (IBGE, 2000). That means that many of Brazil’s social problems, such as poverty, violence, crime, and inequality, are now urban and demand solutions in cities.