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 […]
Clique aqui para Português The Rio de Janeiro known internationally—the South Zone neighborhoods of Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon and the historic center of the city—make up a tiny fraction of the Greater Rio Metropolitan Region. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published on Fala Roça click here. RioOnWatch Editor’s note: On Sunday, September 17, shootouts between drug traffickers broke out in Rocinha, initiating a […]
Clique aqui para Português It has been a year since I presented here on RioOnWatch a view of the negative legacy, or the suburban legacy of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and much has […]
Clique aqui para Português Most of Rio de Janeiro’s mayoral candidates pay lip service to the city’s favelas somewhere in their housing policy proposals, but of Rio’s 11 mayoral candidates only five have offered specific proposals […]