Sao Paulo

“São Paulo is a great city, but not a beautiful city.”

In Future, Megacity, Sao Paulo, Urbanism on 6 November 2007 with no comments

I post often about São Paulo, mostly about how it’s a city portending the worst of urban trends. It turns out there’s a bright side.
Norman Gall gets optimistic in The Wilson Quarterly:

São Paulo is a great city, but not a beautiful city. The ­soot-­darkened buildings of its old business center [...]

The democracy of traffic

In Atlanta, Infrastructure, Sao Paulo, Traffic, Transportation on 30 October 2007 with 1 comment

Traffic democratizes; commuting equalizes. Hell, the very word commute comes from the Latin for to change.
It’s rush hour in Atlanta; if you’re on the road in a car, you’ll have to wait. The commute doesn’t care about your income level or what kind of car you drive. Twice daily, Interstates 75 and 85 are [...]