ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the patterns of residential segregation in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region. The Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region is officially delimited and includes 39 municipalities as well as their main transformations in the recent period. Sao Paulo is the largest and most important metropolitan region in Brazil and Latin America, concentrating significant proportions of the country's wealth and poverty. Sao Paulo is the largest and most important metropolitan region in Brazil and Latin America and is roughly 70 km from north to south and 65 km from west to east, considering the official metropolitan region. The metropolitan region was consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s in a period marked by intense intranational migration, especially from the Northeast of the country, and fast economic growth based mainly on industrial production. Studies of social structure employ different social classifications in order to describe the social attributes and divisions within a given population.
