São Paulo Metropolitan Area gated communities: the end of the rich center versus poor suburbia pattern? / Condomínios fechados na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo: fim do modelo centro rico versus periferia pobre?

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Gated communities constitute an urban phenomenon that is nowadays spreading all over the Brazilian metropolis. Since the 1980s, we can observe an increasing number of gated communities within the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). The gated communities, initially located at suburban areas and used by upper classes, at the present time serve other social classes and have new and distinct characteristics (size and location, houses sizes, services at the collective areas, etc). The initial concerning to comfort was substituted by the need of security and possibly the search for status. This Thesis analyses if the new fractal pattern of spatial segregation has overlapped the rich center X poor suburbia pattern that characterized the SPMA between 1940 and 1980, using the gated communities as case studies. And also pretends to demonstrate that part of the premises about gated communities is not absolute.

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gated communities expansão urbana região metropolitana fractal metropolitan region fractal spatial segregation segregação espacial urban sprawl condomínios fechados

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