What Happened to Our Swimming Pool? Manguinhos Residents Want Answers
For the original by Fransérgio Goulart in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Residents have to jump over the wall to reach the swimming pool The swimming [...]
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Road Widening in Pavão-Pavãozinho Criticized by Residents, But Specialists Defend the Project
For the original by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in Portuguese, published in O Globo, click here. An alley that stretches merely a meter wide in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela set [...]
Morar Carioca: The Dismantling of a Dream Favela Upgrading Program
This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (Tampa, FL. April 2014) An architect recently [...]
Between Tension and Conflicts, Rocinha’s UPP Changes Command
For the original article in Portuguese by Davison Coutinho published in Jornal do Brasil, click here. Major Priscila Azevedo, commanding officer of Rocinha’s Police [...]
The Social & Environmental Costs of Rio’s Olympic Golf Course
President of the Organizing Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Carlos Nuzman recently remarked that “Rio 2016 is intensifying its relationship with [...]