New São Paulo zoning: the future of a mega city at stake


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Once in São Paulo, take as many photos as you want because the city you know is about to radically change in a few years. The bustling Latin America financial capital, home to more than 20 million people in its metro area, is ready to face a new zoning law. After 80 publicly open hearings, more than 7,000 contributions and 250 formal proposals, the new rule was approved by the legislative body last month and now is about to be signed by the mayor. More than general guidelines towards a better city – whatever meaning “better city” can have to a mega city like São Paulo – the new law would detail, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, what can and cannot be done. As frequently occur in cases of such big impact and detailed changes, opposing views are battling to protect their own sides, instead of broader proposals…

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