Map of the City of São Paulo, 1924
Map of the City of São Paulo, 1924. In black the railway lines. Scale 1: 30,000
São Paulo in the twentieth century: With the industrial growth of the city, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its urbanized area began to increase at accelerated rates, being that some residential neighborhoods were built in places of farms. The great industrial outbreak occurred during the Second World War, due to the crisis in the production of coffee and restrictions on international trade, which made the city to have a very high growth rate until today.
São Paulo in the twentieth century: With the industrial growth of the city, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its urbanized area began to increase at accelerated rates, being that some residential neighborhoods were built in places of farms. The great industrial outbreak occurred during the Second World War, due to the crisis in the production of coffee and restrictions on international trade, which made the city to have a very high growth rate until today.