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Article: Sao Paulo: Urbanization Run Amok.(economic problems of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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America could learn much from the myriad difficulties now plaguing Sao Paulo, Brazil.
With 21.4 million residents expected by the end of the year, the world's second- largest city (Mexico City is the largest) is caught up in a spiraling escalation of problems that come when the population increases at a much faster rate than the infrastructure needed to support it.
Although there is a marked difference in the economic climate of the United States, with its high level of prosperity, and Brazil, with its continuing financial crisis, comparisons can be drawn. The great American megalopolis now emerging from Boston to Washington, D.C., and beyond resembles ...