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The Ultimate In 'Island Cities'

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Joe O'Bannon
2 July 2002 - 8:00am

One city that protects itself from the "others".

Sao Paulo -- a city of 18 million, populated by the fantastically wealthy and the severely poor with little in between -- is, by some accounts, a vision of future urban life in the developing world. Amid rising crime and overpopulation, the rich are retrenching into hyper-insulated lives. Sociologists call it the price of social inequity.

Full Story: Brazil's Elites Fly Above Their Fears
Source: The Washington Post, June 1, 2002
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