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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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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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PUC and Metropolitan Chamber Debate Rio’s Metropolitan Development Plan

By Juliana Torres • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • September 17, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Following the recent presentation of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region Integrated Urban Development Plan (PDUI-RJ), which took place in the auditorium of the city’s General Archive in Centro, many civil […]

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Rio’s New Mayor Announces Strategic Plan: What’s in it for Favelas?

By RioOnWatch Editorial • Translation by Rachel Brabbins • July 11, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, July 4, Mayor Marcelo Crivella, in office since January, made public his proposal for the 2017-2020 Strategic Plan for municipal management, a few days late. There are four major […]

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Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas Part 5: Proposing Solutions

By David Robertson • January 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the fifth in a five-part series titled Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas. We hope this series will inform debates on housing and favela upgrading and that Rio’s new mayor, Marcelo […]

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