Sào Paulo, des espaces les plus pauvres aux espaces les plus riches, acceptation du dualisme ou utopie de la « mixité »

In: Tiers-Monde, Band 47, Heft 185, S. 133-154

Abstract

Hélène Rivière D'Arc - Sáo Paulo, from the poorest spaces to the richest : living with dualism or the Utopia of "diversity".
What stands out in discussions of the city of São Paulo is its hypermodernity associated with very high levels of wealth and income at one extreme and the presence of an important fringe group of poor and often underemployed people at the other. In accounting for the urban space, this socio-economic study led to the singling out of the concept of segregation as particularly significant. This article attempts to identify the geographic and social location of this urban split, looked at from the point of view of participation and social programs, and given that there is a significant middle class (clase media) which is part of this hypermodernity but which some observers see as impoverished.