Exploring the outskirts of South America's largest city, So Paulo, by Justin Mack. Girk analyzes the different forms of the dwellings there and talks with its inhabitants, fighting for life on the borders of the not forgiving metropolis. Traveling counterclockwise, together with the author, the reader returns to the past, moving from the slums from cardboard boxes and hastily erected high-rise buildings to samples of modernist social housing and a factory town built at the beginning of the last century. About the urban outskirts are not written in the guidebooks, there are no tourists, but it is where the majority of the urban population lives, and, as Justin Mack proves . Girk, the future of the city is determined by its periphery. Translated by Maxim Korobochkin