The Ultimate In 'Island Cities'

One city that protects itself from the "others".

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July 2, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Sao Paulo -- a city of 18 million, populated by the fantastically wealthy and the severely poor with little in between -- is, by some accounts, a vision of future urban life in the developing world. Amid rising crime and overpopulation, the rich are retrenching into hyper-insulated lives. Sociologists call it the price of social inequity.

Thanks to Joe O'Bannon

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