Thomas Locke Hobbs
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Currently: Buenos Aires
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Higienopolis
| The hot new neighborhood in São Paulo circa 1910 was Higienopolis, literally "Hygiene City". The name sounds strange but at a time when Yellow Fever was a leading cause of death I'm sure it sounded like an attractive place to live. The neighborhood is still posh altho it has been completely verticalized. The first transformation came in the 1950s with "tropical modern" apartment buildings like Edificio Louveira (below) and Parque das Hortensias. More recently the noveau riche have been moving into Fake-French Neo-Classical high rises (which I suppose are the apartment building version of McMansions). I ended my walk and the neighborhood's new centerpiece: a shopping mall! Actually, Patio Hiegienopolis is the nicest mall I've seen here. I would've taken more pictures but the security goons told me to desist. |
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