Decentralizing São Paulo: A Difficult Promise to Keep

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São Paulo is immense and full of challenges. With twelve million inhabitants, Latin America's largest city struggles to provide a good quality of life for its residents. Traffic congestion is relentless. Public transit is still far from ideal. The Expanded Center concentrates a volume of jobs disproportionate to its population. Unsurprisingly, the daily commute is one of the main complaints of paulistanos.

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Cite: Sette, André. "Decentralizing São Paulo: A Difficult Promise to Keep" [Descentralizar São Paulo: uma promessa difícil de cumprir] 06 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. (Trans. Romullo Baratto) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1123863/decentralizing-sao-paulo-a-difficult-promise-to-keep> ISSN 0719-8884

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