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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Urban Renewal North and South: The Case of São Paulo and New York During and After WWII

January 1, 2014

When Nelson Rockefeller arrived at the São Paulo airport on June 18, 1969, as the head of Richard Nixon's Presidential Mission to Latin America, he delivered a statement that must have thrilled his paulistano hosts -- especially those who looked to New York as a model city. In addition to calling São Paulo Latin America's most modern industrial center and the world's fastest growing city, among other superlatives associated with the city at the time, Rockefeller went on to say that the usual comparisons between São Paulo and Chicago were now "out-ofdate." For Rockefeller, the more accurate parallel was between São Paulo and his own New York. Though unusual, the fact that Nelson Rockefeller emphasized the similarities between São Paulo and New York should come as no surprise given that he, and a group of influential politicians, engineers, city planners, architects, and museum directors from both New York and São Paulo, had been working in concert to improve US-Brazil relations and bring the two cities closer together since the early 1940s.

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