Largo da Batata

This guide to Largo da Batata in São Paulo centers on the January 2007 collapse of an eighty-meter crater during subway tunneling, which swallowed vehicles and cost seven lives and forced seventy-nine families from their homes. You'll hear how the city's original budget and timeline for rebuilding the square unraveled, and how courts spent the following years arguing over responsibility. Listen for the market history behind the square's name, once lined with stalls selling potatoes.