A cidade que quer tocar o céu
Autor(es): Silva Almeida, Fernando Antonio da
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This paper is to discuss the dwelling verticalization process that the city of Recife, Brazil, is undergoing nowadays. In the last 50 years, the population of this city increased almost three times. The same can be said about the dwelling-place amount, a situation that, among other traditional districts around the city, denotes the existences of a network of districts of speculative interests for the housing market. The new dwelling towers are rapidly spreading out throuhg the city, thus directly influencing the new transit ways, the apparition of new urban centralities, and the gentrification of public spaces