ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the production of public spaces in São Paulo’s historical centre amid the metropolization from the 1950s to the 1990s based on the everyday history that this perimeter’s pedestrians accomplished therein by then through their patterns of socially relating with each other in public places by means of their bodies. By scrutinizing captioned newspaper photographs about these pedestrians’ bodily uses of the city’s cathedral square in quadrennials of five decades, I argue both for body relations increasingly grounded on physical proximity during daytime, and for the production of central public spaces that increasingly gather social and cultural differences.
