Clique aqui para Português As a symbolic space in Rio de Janeiro, there is little to compare to the Maracanã stadium. Its history and position in the urban imagination is tightly linked to the cultural […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original by Andressa Cabral in Portuguese on Viva Favela click here. It took 14 years to execute, with 140 favelas and allotments benefitting from US$600 million in investment. Twenty […]
For the original by Beatriz Lindolfo in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. Traffic in Rio de Janeiro isn’t easy for anyone. Maré de Notícias went to the bus and van stops, in both directions, […]
Clique aqui para Português Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV; in English “My House My Life”) is Brazil’s first-ever effort at large-scale public housing, an ambitious nationwide program tasked with constructing 3.4 million homes as part of […]
Clique aqui para Português In a country that has seen the number of cars more than double in the last decade, and in what is now Brazil’s most congested city, Rio de Janeiro’s four planned BRT (Bus […]