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The coolest thing about São Paulo is…

Does anything of note stand out in the photo below? A city skyline? A beautifully crisp sunny day? An abundance of high-rise buildings? The haze of smog above them? Well yes, but that’s not what I was...

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Pichação: The revolution will be tagged

Elsewhere on the blog I’ve suggested that the quantity and quality of São Paulo’s street art must rank amongst the finest – if not the finest – anywhere in the world. And by ‘street art’ what I’ve...

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Walking the Minhocão

The Minhocão (known officially as Via Elevado Presidente Costa e Silva), is a 2.2 mile (3.5km) long elevated highway that perhaps exemplifies best how São Paulo came to privilege driving over walking...

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See the city, see São Paulo

In the months prior to leaving Brazil I’d written about walking and psychogeography as means of finding new ways to see, explore and understand the complexities and unseen beauty of São Paulo. It was...

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