The Slums of So Paulo.

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? Sao Paulo lies just inland of the Southeast coast of the South American continent.

? Graph A shows that the population of Sao Paulo inconstantly increased from 1970 to 1994, with an all-time high at 1994. This was 21 million residents in the area of Sao Paulo, yet six years later, it dropped down 4 million people.

Graph B. indicates how in 1994 the area of Sao Paulo was the 3rd largest city in the world. In 2000, the city of Sao Paulo was the 2nd largest city in the world, as shown by the highest bar. It also shows the rise and falls between 1970 and 1985.

? There are three main characteristics of the Sao Paulo population. One is the relatively low amount of rich people when compared to the total population. The large proportion of poverty-stricken inhabitants and residents is also of great importance, as is the increasing number of migrants, when the majority of them are poor.

? The majority and outskirts of the model cities are illegal favelas and shantytowns, residing the large number of poor emigrants. The government despises these areas, yet nothing can be done to the unusually large amount of unemployed emigrants. Sao Paulo follows rough outlines of the Hoyt city model, as areas are divided into sectors. Its extremely minute CBD area is trailed away by over employing factories along side the main roads. Although the housing inequalities are great, high-class housing is sometimes found right next to the favelas and self-help areas, along the outskirts of Sao Paulo. Although it lacks in mass expensive housing around the CBD, it has few medium quality houses with the basic amenities, which is an improvement from most houses. The area of Sao Paulo can be represented within a Hoyt Model.
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? The housing inequality of Sao Paulo is of great difference. The majority of the homes are favelas, cheap, handmade huts of recycled and discarded materials, without proper waste resources, nor running water or electricity. This takes far more than half of the housing in Sao Paulo, yet there is another significant housing style. The few wealthy people of Sao Paulo, probably, have more wealth than the entire population, showing the massive difference within Sao Paulo's inequality. This means that the gap between the standards of the rich and the standards of the poor are great enough to ...

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