The DNA of São Paulo
In the second decade of the 21st Century, we find on a plateau in Brazil's Serra do Mar mountains São Paulo; a city of 12 million people and the nucleus of a metropolitan region of over 20 million people in a macro-metropolitan region of over 30 million people. We explore the planetary conditions that led to permanent settlement in this location and the multiple drivers for the super-charged transformation that followed as São Paulo became an enormously energetic, globally fluent and magnetic metropolis.
Photo credit: Will Guima
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Contributors
We are very grateful to our esteemed local experts Mariana Barros, Claudio Bernardes, Professor Miguel Bucalem, Professor Felipe Correa, Elisabete França and Professor Regina Meyer for helping us to decode what makes São Paulo, São Paulo. If you'd like to find out more, you can read our full interviews with them by clicking below:
Claudio Bernardes
Ingai Incorporadora s/a
Prof Miguel Bucalem
Escola Politécnica da
Universidade de São Paulo
Prof Regina Meyer
Universidade de São Paulo