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Chronically Ill-Perceived Manguinhos and Jacarézinho: Who Tells This Story?

By Brunna Araraki • Translation by Desirée Poets • November 4, 2017

Clique aqui para Português In recent weeks, Rio de Janeiro has offered clear proof that it never abandoned its divided city project. And the news underscores that. A city that removes, divides, and exacerbates the vulnerablity […]

#EvictionsWatch

Barrinha: Yet Another Community Facing ‘Immoral’ Eviction Threats

By Tyler Strobl • November 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On a quiet street in the eastern edge of the elite neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro lies a small and charming favela of 51 families in the sub-locality of […]

#EvictionsWatch

Authors Launch Books on Housing Rights, Colonial Legacies, and the Role of Academia

By Sophie Pizzimenti • October 31, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, October 24, Rio de Janeiro’s downtown Centro region hosted a launch event for two books focused on the right to housing: Human Rights and the Colonization of the Urban—Vila […]

#EvictionsWatch

‘There Will Be No Evictions’: Rio das Pedras Wins One Battle, Faces Another

By Lucas Smolcic Larson, Tyler Strobl • October 30, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of people gathered at the Campo do Via Light in the Rio das Pedras favela, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, October 26, to hear an important announcement […]

#ParticipationWatch

Architects Debate the Right to Public Technical Assistance in Architecture and Urbanism

By Priscilla Mayrink • Translation by Júlia Hara Medeiros • October 30, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Monday, October 16, members of social movements, architects, and urbanists gathered at the Casa de Estudos Urbanos, in Glória in Rio’s South Zone, for a discussion on “Technical Support in […]

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