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#GentrificationWatch

Reflections on Gentrification in Vidigal [IMAGES]

By Patrick Isensee • January 31, 2014

Clique aqui para Português With its historically welcoming and bohemian community and stunning views of Rio’s coast, the Vidigal favela in Rio’s South Zone has seen ever more visitors, new residents and outside developers since […]

#HousingWatch

Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades: Federally-Funded Housing Solutions Through Self-Managed Cooperatives

By Catherine Osborn • December 26, 2013

Clique aqui para Português Every month, representatives of 116 families meet in a warehouse in central Rio. The families currently live in different parts of the city: in the favelas of Parque da Cidade and […]

#Rio2016

Reflections After a Year of Protest: Rio de Janeiro as ‘Post-Third World City’ or ‘City of Exception’?

By Matthew Richmond • December 24, 2013

After a year of protest it’s time to re-examine what kind of Rio de Janeiro is emerging from the ‘city project.’ The widely (though not universally) held belief that Brazil had entered a new era […]

#Rio2016

Vila Autódromo People’s Plan Wins Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award

By Kate Steiker-Ginzberg • December 20, 2013

Clique aqui para Português “Receiving this international prize honors and rewards us in our struggle for the right to the city,” stated Luiz Cláudio da Silva, a 19-year resident of Vila Autódromo, upon hearing the […]

#CommunityMedia

“Beltrame, We Don’t Accept Losing Another Generation”

By Mônica Francisco • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • November 28, 2013

Last Tuesday November 19, an interview with Rio State Security secretary, José Mariano Beltrame, was published in which he claimed that Rio may have to lose a generation before the situation of violence in Rio’s […]

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