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  São Paulo: the society and the city
   Csaba Deák  
Beijing symposium on City Region Perspectives
  .2009.11.5-8
2.  Brazilian society
     3 The crisis of hindered accumulation

Saturation of the extensive stage  mid-1970s
Fall of the rate of excess:
    subdivision problematic
accumulation or expatriation
 
Stalemate

bolivianization or unhindered development
1 980: the lost decade -- then other two more
 
Neoliberalism
Disqualifying the State as representant of common interest
Recent 'round' of denationallization (under privatization) --allows 5% growth

    
Further reading

Deák (2001) "The Partido dos Trabalhadores in São PauloSoundings18:41-52

Deák (2004) "Brazil: the PT in government Soundings 28:143-55

Deák & Schiffer (2007)  "São Paulo: The metropolis of an elite society" in SEGBERS, Klaus et alii(Eds, 2007) The making of global city regions Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore


Brazil 1940-2000: Urbanization rate


Hindered accumulation | SP: urban pattern

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