Social Inequality In Sao Paulo

Segregation in the public spaces is the most common issue in many cities across the world especially Los Angeles and Sao Paulo.By means of segregation, the borderline divide bysocial groups (poor and middle/upper classes). Poor class were meant to be keep out of sight in public but deal with expose to high rate of crimes and violence in areas where they commonly live in. Meanwhile, upper classes live in well-off neighborhood with increase protection of security measures but isolated from the public. Those issues have been around for more than decades especially in Sao Paulo. While Sao Paulo is the city of walls, this is showing social inequality exists within boundaries between social groups. While there are various solutions need to be fixed,
There are walls to protect wealthy people from violence and prevent homeless people from access to their neighborhood. The walls and fences themselves represent the class difference between rich and poor. That means rich people spent tons of money on security (heavy guards, dogs etc) ensure to protect their property and themselves. At the same time, poor struggled to survive and barely earn money to support their families.While it is obviously huge gap in the Brazilian society. conomy is one of the main reasons lead to the growing poverty rate. Calderia explained during 1980s, there was an alarming rate of inflation, unemployment and recession that shift the lives of citizens forced out of city to live in region, which is known as favelas. Some regions that were once home to middle classes (shopping centers, houses, schools etc) now became home to homeless. This was shift change also for the upper class when they move further away from them by living in gated community which they meet other people of same status. In additional to economy, the crime is another main factor. There was huge number cases of military police violence in Sao Paulo which a thousand of suspects were killed. Because of this violence, citizens were forced to develop their own protection and fear of military police changed their public interactions by avoid them as possible. By means of public interactions, there was decline of social life where everyone can interact and communicate with each other, and perform their normal daily lives. Calderia mentioned in her article about before 1980s, there were many houses with beautiful gardens. This lifestyle were abandoned and replaced by architectural developments after 1980s. The developments began after the social movements push governments to give permission for developers to build something. However, because developers were able to build