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São Paulo, Politics of the Discensus

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Historic and poetic portrait of downtown area done in the conflict field of the gentrification process.

Artist / Author Various
Reference D0965
Date 2008
Type DVD

Keywords

city gentrification Sao Paulo Serpentine Gallery urban

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