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A strategic urban vision, addressing transit and mobility, public space and green space, autonomy and decision making, social infrastructure and environmental resiliance, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, identifying challenges, characteristics and capacity for progressive change.

The document seeks to outline several overlapping strategies; for easier mobility around the city of São Paulo, i.e. cheaper, more reliable, more regular, more accessible, more comfortable, more energy efficient, more beautiful means of mobility, for all São Paulo’s citizens; more green space for amenity and play, more public space for social gathering, decision making and communities strengthening; more localalsied autonomy over the physical environment providing the ways and means to defend local business from the existential threat of free market forces.

It is hoped that by implementing such a strategy whereby private car numbers are greatly reduced and there is greater opportunitiy for social interaction and communitiy, several knock on effects would begin to materialise. Air quality and public health would be greatly improved, taking some of the pressure off the cost and delivery of public health services. A reduction in CO2 emissions, the accumulation of which is the main contributor to climate change, would contribute to global efforts to prevent serious changes to our environment, and thereby reduce the likelihood of flooding within São Paulo itself and increase its biodiversity. And less private, isolated commuting in cars, and more shared travel and social interaction, should enable spaces in the city to open up, where inhabitants can interact, feel safer and get to know and understand one another without fear or suspicion.