The contradictions in post-industrial urban development, mainly regarding the so-called third world metropolis in a globalized economy, enhance old social disparities and welcome new "spacial structures", both in rich and poor fractions. The present paper shows an initial view of the socio-spacial segregation. The intra-urban structure of the city of Sao Paulo concentrates the wealthy in central rings, thus making the periphery the domain of the poor. It is the picture of a divided metropolis, with no civility, an urban patchwork quilt where rich and poor enclaves are placed on an indistinct frame