The slums and the walled condominiums express the duality of rich and poor living in São Paulo metropolitan area. The occurrences of those settlements begin, in the case of slums, in the first half of the XX century, and, , in the case of the walled condominiums and developments, in the 1970's. This paper intends to analyze and to identify both the spaces of homes in condition of extreme vulnerability, particularly the slums and habitational units in precarious outlying neighborhoods, and the ways of structuring the space for living for the rich and the middle class, highlighting, preferentially, the walled horizontal condominiums, as real state forms that represent the two extremes of the current socioterritorial inequality in the urban and metropolitan context of São Paulo. We will also think about the new forms of space appropriation for rich and of poor living, trying to understand if there really is a new pattern of occupation of soil in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area.
slums; walled condominiums; socioespatial exclusion; São Paulo Metropolitan Region
