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Ten Lessons from Asa Branca on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

By Mayu Takeda • December 16, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a four-part series on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Founded in 1986, the favela of Asa Branca is situated in the region of Barra da Tijuca in […]

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Mapping the ‘Uncharted’ Favela: The Growing Role of Participatory and Insurgent Cartographies

By Raine Robichaud • December 4, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Despite Rio de Janeiro’s original and oldest favela just celebrating its 120th anniversary last month, it was not until fifty years later, in 1947, that the city’s favelas began to be included […]

Public space in Babilônia in 2012
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The Power of the Plaza: Favela-Led Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Babilônia

By Mayu Takeda • November 29, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. “First of all, this plaza is different because this plaza is our plaza,” declares André Constantine, a powerful […]

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At Favela Literary Festival, Contest Highlights History of 5 Areas of Vidigal

By Priscilla Mayrink • Translation by Cheyne Bull • November 27, 2017

Clique aqui para Português In its sixth annual edition, this year’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP) took place in Vidigal in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro with the theme “Revolution, Choose Yours,” which sought […]

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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Crivella’s Strategic Plan Heavily Criticized in Wide Ranging Civil Society Debate

By Priscilla Mayrink • Translation by Melinda Gurr • November 6, 2017

Clique aqui para Português A series of public forums on the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro continued on October 23 with its second installment, titled “Rio’s Strategic Plan: Urban Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Fragmentation of […]

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