Vitor Pessoa Colombo

Vitor Pessoa Colombo is an architect; he carries his PhD thesis as a doctoral assistant at the Urban and Regional Planning Community (CEAT), at Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology. His research focuses on urbanization processes in the global South, socio-spatial segregation and participatory mapping methods applicable in contexts of high economic and/or social vulnerability.

Gentrification, co-presence or social mix? Changes and permanence in the centre of São Paulo

Vitor Pessoa Colombo and Gian Paolo Torricelli

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 ...

17.07.2020