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Alphaville, São Paulo (Portuguese pronunciation:[awfaˈvili]) is an affluent district split between the municipalities of Barueri and Santana de Parnaíba suburbs of São Paulo. The Alphaville district is a real estate and gated community development in Brazil, constituted by a number of business and residential condominium. The name evokes the "first among cities" concept (ville as French for city and alpha being the first letter of Greek alphabet).
The Alphaville concept was created by a building company in São Paulo City, Albuquerque & Takaoka, in the 1970s. The São Paulo megalopolis was beginning to show an upward trend in crime rates, traffic jams, and other forms of urban malaise. Consequently, suburban developments gained popularity, both for modern industrial and commercial ventures, and for wealthy and upper-middle classnouveau riche. The company bought large farm areas in the neighboring counties of Barueri and Santana do Parnaíba and urbanized them. The then-recently built Castelo Branco Highway provided an access to downtown São Paulo. The lots were sold initially for commercial and industrial development, but soon demand for lots for residential purposes arose.
Characteristicsedit
A view of Alphaville Campinas I.
In the present, the original Alphaville site (23 km from São Paulo) has 33 gated areas, with more than 20,000 residences. The business area contains 2,300 businesses, including 11 schools and universities, with a daily movement of more than 150,000 people. Due to the high traffic to and from São Paulo city, the Castelo Branco Highway has been expanded and is now a toll road, with a tolled spur road specifically for Alphaville.
Other variations of real estate developments by the same company followed, such as Aldeia da Serra, Toque-Toque Pequeno (a beach resort condominium) and Villa Alpha and Alphaville Residential, which sell pre-built modular houses.
Referencesedit
Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. City of Walls : Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo. Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology in the Graduate Division of the University of California at Berkeley, 1992, p. 257.
Gotsch, Peter. "NeoTowns – Prototypes of corporate Urbanism." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2009, Chapter 3: Alphaville-Tamboré – The accidental new Town, pp337, http://www.neo-town.org (r06.03.2012)
External linksedit
(in Portuguese) Alphaville Urbanismo Home Page
(in Portuguese) Encontra Alphaville - Find everything about Alphaville neighborhood
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