Uploaded on 2017-06-01 by Pedro Gontijo

1.Safety Health Care Housing Sanitation Standards Transportation Job Opportunities Education Infrastructure Recreation Possibilities Environment Economy Internal Connectivity Culture Climate Political Stability 2.I live in São Paulo/Brazil, in the Brooklin neighborhood. The first reason I came to live here was the job offer I received 3 years ago (Job Opportunities). When I moved from Belo Horizonte, I didn’t want to spend hours and hours in traffic jams or in the subway, so I choose Brooklin because it is located, in a certain way, really close to the administrative/commercial pole of São Paulo (Internal Connectivity). Besides these 2 main reasons, I realized that the neighborhood was quite peaceful (Safety), it has a good mobility system (Transportation) and it is close to parks, shopping malls and restaurants (Recreation Possibilities). (The image was taken from my window!) 3.My place of residence deserves an 85/100. The main criteria, Safety, is probably the weakest point of them all. The population still afraid of urban violence and crimes. The other four points are well developed in this area: we have hospitals and medical centers not far away, the condition of the houses and buildings here are pretty good, I’ve never heard about any problems concerning Sanitation Standards, and the Transportation works good in the neighborhood. However, it’s hard to give the same rate to the rest of the city. São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the world, and if we have a nice neighborhood like Brooklin on one side, on the other we have lots of neighborhoods and “favelas” that doesn’t comply to any of the livability criteria mentioned above. Besides, even on richer parts of the city we can spot problems in traffic jams, violence and crime, corruption and many other things that might drop the livability score. In my opinion, a fair rate would be around 50/100. 4.If I were the Mayor, I would think in a possibility of integrate the population. Most of the problems from São Paulo has its origins in the fact that the city grew too much, and a major part of the population has a difficult access to the central areas of the city, consequently, a difficult access to health services, job offers, recreation, etc. For this situation, I’ve think about 2 options: bring the population from far away to central areas, to ensure that they will have an easy access to everything they can’t in the margins of the city. However, it probably might not be suitable for São Paulo, because the population is just huge, and centralize it in a single area would be a disaster. The second option is to develop various “central areas”, fragment the city in several districts, in a way that even on a city big as São Paulo, the population from a distant neighborhood will have access to everything the people on other areas will have too. 5.If I choose to move from São Paulo, I would probably go to: Montreal (Canada), Montevideo (Uruguay) or Barcelona (Spain). For each city, these are the 5 livability criteria I choose for each one: Montreal: Safety, Housing, Transportation, Education, Recreation Possibilities Montevideo: Safety, Housing, Infrastructure, Recreation Possibilities, Climate Barcelona: Safety, Housing, Infrastructure, Education, Recreation Possibilities