Between rings and radials: logistics and inequality in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region

Abstract Production restructuring in the era of globalization and neoliberalism has boosted broad territorial transformations, where urbanization seeks to support growing flows and logistics has acquired a fundamental role. In this context, the study explores changes related to logistical land use in the outskirts of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (1998-2021). The emergence of logistics condominiums was observed in environmental areas and vulnerable neighborhoods, led by large global companies in collaboration with the financial sector and with the government’s support. The resulting spatial configuration of such dynamics reinforces the structural inequality of Brazilian society and the role the country has historically played in the international division of labor, in an urbanization process in which high technology and precariousness coexist in contradiction.