A (Des)Verticalização de São Paulo e o Plano Diretor da Cidade

Abstract

This paper based on a research into São Paulo verticalization points to a number of changes of urban production processo. The analysis dissociates vertical growth from densification and shows how state intervention imposes limitations on density to a significant extent. Indeed São Paulo is highrise but not dense. The urban legislation has progressively reduced land available for urbanization. This induced a sizeble increase in Land prices excludisg thereby the lower income population from legal access to land. The findings of the research, especially those refering to the negative effects of zoning by laws and the eventual elimination of the latter, were included in the proposals of the Master Plan of the City