Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (review)

2010 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Paul Julian Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo

The avoidable health effects of air pollution in three Latin American cities: Santiago, São Paulo, and Mexico City

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Bell ◽  
Devra L. Davis ◽  
Nelson Gouveia ◽  
Víctor H. Borja-Aburto ◽  
Luis A. Cifuentes
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
American Cities

Where should I be located? Entrepreneurial clustering in Mexico City and São Paulo

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 10271
Author(s):  
Juliette Anne Rault ◽  
Gilberto Sarfati
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo

scholarly journals Understanding the Effect of Traffic Congestion on Accidents Using Big Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7500
Author(s):  
Santiago Sánchez González ◽  
Felipe Bedoya-Maya ◽  
Agustina Calatayud
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Poisson Model ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
San Salvador

Understanding the temporal and spatial dynamics of traffic accidents are a key determinant in their mitigation. This article leverages big data and a Poisson model with fixed effects to understand the causality of traffic congestion on road accidents in ten cities in Latin America: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador, Santiago, Santo Domingo, and Sao Paulo. Analyzing over 10 billion observations in 2019, results show a positive non-linear causality of congestion on the number of accidents. Overall, the results suggest that a 10% reduction in traffic delay would reduce accidents by 3.4%, equivalent to over 72 thousand traffic accidents. Sao Paulo and Mexico City would be particularly benefited, with reductions of 5.4% and 4.7%, respectively. The results of this paper aim to support policymakers in emerging economies in implementing measures to reduce congestion and, with it, the related direct and indirect costs borne by societies.

scholarly journals Sá, Lúcia. Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Larkosh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Other ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Mario De Andrade

At the start of her latest book, Lúcia Sá explains the intellectual trajectory that led her to a study of the Latin American megacities of Mexico City and São Paulo by way of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma: “in order to recover his muiraquitã, the eponymous Mário de Andrade traveled from one end of Brazil to the other, the Amazon to São Paulo, and in a sense, having completed Rain Forest Literatures (2004), this is what I have attempted to do in this study” (x). Such a work, following one on the literatures of the Amazon, underscores Sá’s admirable commitment to exploring the literary and cultural extremes of her native Brazil, while at the same time incorporating other materials that make a more comparative discussion with internal indigenous cultural elements or other Latin American societies possible.

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