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Originally Posted by ue
wow.... what happened...
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This happened:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_(Rio_de_Janeiro). Not very different from a typical US CBD. From some angles, it doesn't look so different from San Francisco's.
Today it's hard to forget as São Paulo dominates everything, but till the 1980's, Rio de Janeiro was Brazilian main financial centre and that reflects on its Downtown transformation from this Parisian look to a North American CBD.