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Gian Paolo Torricelli (PhD) is a geographer, head of the Observatory of Spatial Development (OST) and professor of Urban Geography and Spatial Development at the Accademia di architettura (University of Lugano – USI) in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He taught at the Universities of Geneva and Milan, and was visiting professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires (1998 and 2015) and Grenoble (2001). His research focuses on urbanization and mobility of mountainous regions, cartography and geo-information, urban public space and Latin American cities.
Can we speak of gentrification in the centre of São Paulo (Brazil)? Or is it rather a situation of copresence between different social classes? Starting from a brief analysis of the Latin-American ...
