num_pages: 473
description: Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear crime and segregation in So Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on So Paulo and using comparative data on Los Angeles she identifies new patterns of segregation developing in these cities and suggests that these patterns are appearing in many metropolises.
language: English
title: City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
publisher: University of California Press