South America's Biggest City and the Other Side of The Same Coin
São Paulo City is home to several of the tallest buildings in Brazil, including the Mirante do Vale, Edifício Itália, Banespa, North Tower and many others. The city has cultural, economic and political influence both nationally and internationally. People from the city are known as paulistanos, while paulistas designates anyone from the state, including the paulistanos. Although São Paulo City is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to large international communities (Arab, Italian, Japanese etc.), favelas are the other side of the same coin.
There are shantytowns or slums known as favela in Brazil within urban areas. It says that the first favelas appeared in the late 19th century and were built by soldiers who had nowhere to live. Some of the first settlements were called African neighborhoods (bairros africanos). They were the places where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many former black slaves moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people ended up in favelas.
Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in slums. This means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people that lived in the country resided in areas of irregular occupation definable by lack of public services or urbanization, referred to by the IBGE as "subnormal agglomerations". In summary, São Paulo City is a metropolis which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center in Brazil, however, there is still a big fraction of the population living in bad conditions, living in favelas.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
https://global.britannica.com/place/Sao-Paulo-Brazil
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/en/conhecasp/
http://www.geographia.com/Brazil/saopaulo/index.htm
There are shantytowns or slums known as favela in Brazil within urban areas. It says that the first favelas appeared in the late 19th century and were built by soldiers who had nowhere to live. Some of the first settlements were called African neighborhoods (bairros africanos). They were the places where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many former black slaves moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people ended up in favelas.
Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in slums. This means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people that lived in the country resided in areas of irregular occupation definable by lack of public services or urbanization, referred to by the IBGE as "subnormal agglomerations". In summary, São Paulo City is a metropolis which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center in Brazil, however, there is still a big fraction of the population living in bad conditions, living in favelas.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
https://global.britannica.com/place/Sao-Paulo-Brazil
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/en/conhecasp/
http://www.geographia.com/Brazil/saopaulo/index.htm
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