Itaim paulista in São Paulo and Cazenga in Luanda, One observation that was compared

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2162252201127

• Palavras-chave: Slums in São Paulo-Luanda. Urban Structure. Structures communities.

• Keywords: Slums in São Paulo-Luanda. Urban Structure. Structures communities.

• Abstract:

  Observation compared what search deepen the understanding in two neighborhoods slums, one in São Paulo, Brazil, and another in Luanda, Angola. This article brings clarifications on the forms of political-administrative division in those two cities and, the light in some references of bibliography, demand characteristics us neighborhoods observed that are clues about community structures present in them, in addition to reflect on the dimension of a community and its relationship with the segmentation of the territory. It starts from the premise that these urban areas are social phenomena dynamic and legitimate, thus removing the idea sometimes adopted that they would be anomalies in the city. Physical and dynamic characteristics of spaces are identified urban observed, in addition in signals in segregation socioeconomic and space, seeking to contribute to the understanding of what we understand as its Culture of construction. The procedures used here were the observation of cartography and data, in addition to their analysis in the light of texts on the construction of space urban.