This article analises some features of urban development process of city of São Paulo in the years between 1890 and 1920. Especially, the pecularities of the configuration of one singular cosmopolitan atmosphere in the city, in wich it could to be noted that under the europeian and modern face of São Paulo had others social rithms and an multiplicity of times. It's one reflection about de pecularities of urban development process of the "Paulicéia", in wich it's possible to note the multiplicity of tensions that to pass by the configuration of one urban scene characterized by the bustle of streets and instabilities of social and cultural shapes.
São Paulo; Modernity; Multiplicity of Times; Urban Development