City planning

>>71881855
Most of the land is an immense jungle.

>>71881855

The region of sao paulo used to have some of the best land and weather in the entire country , it was the coffe capital of the world and when industrialization kicked in we already had the railways. So , lots of industries + opportunities and everyone wanted to come live here.
You see , with the exception o SP , the south , RJ , MG and maybe MS , the rest of the country is a tropical hot hell with not a lot of agricultural diversity.

>>71881968
They cut down millions of hectares of jungle a year for farms. Only a little would have to be cut down to accommodate low density residential growth.

>What's the point of packing everyone into a skyscraper?

it's more profitable

>>71882072
Yes, but why does everyone need to be in skyscrapers? Why not have traditional suburban subdivisions with single detached homes? Brazil is not short of land.

>>71882108
inefficiency

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>>71882243
jap

>>71881855
Tbh it's ugly. Manhattan anyday.

Monkeys left to their own devices.

Florianopolis is based and honestly as it sits in the Atlantic should be rightful Portuguese clay.

>>71882108

You can blame the youth an early 20th prgressive culture. You see , young adults think living in an apartment for themselves is cool - i myself am planning to move to a rented kitnet next years actually- and everyone wants to live in a metropolis and shit , so , theres demand , theres offer. As for the latter factor , in the early days of brazilian modernization skyscrapers were seem as symbols of progress and we - and the paulistanos in special- embraced it.
And ching chong is right too , it would be inefficient to build surburbs for every middle class , although theres alphaville for that

>>71881855
It is always more efficient to build high even if you have more land. Urban sprawl is bad.

>>71882072
>it was the coffe capital of the world
You took that title from us.


Reeeeeeeeeeee

>>71882108
vertical and dense cities are more efficient than flat and sprawling ones

Urban sprawl is cancer. When you're that far away from everything you can't walk anywhere It's no coincidence that The United States and Australia the countries with the most sprawl are also the fattest. This is why folks. It also leads to congested roads and needless habitat destruction.