Deadly highrise fire in Brazil spotlights city's housing crisis and the squatter movement it spawned
- Written by Patricia Rodrigues Samora, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
A massive fire in historic downtown São Paulo, Brazil, on May 1 has killed at least one person, with three more suspected dead. Several neighboring buildings, including a church, were destroyed, scorched or evacuated.
The 25-story building that caught fire and later collapsed was a vacant former police headquarters now occupied by...