Clique aqui para Português Sitting in the rubble of his neighbor’s demolished house on Sunday, April 5, Tadilmarco Peixopo, the last resident of Avenida Autódromo, described his surroundings of debris and vacant lots as a […]
Clique aqui para Português Demolitions in Vila União de Curicica are now underway despite the promised re-routing of the TransOlympic BRT highway and bus corridor (TransOlímpica) announced by City government in December. Before that announcement, the West Zone […]
For the original in Portuguese by Luã Marinatto e Rafael Soares, published in EXTRA, click here. Rio’s Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) public housing is designed to house the poorest families—known as Band 1 financing—but are also targets for […]
With 500 days to go until the start of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, residents of Vila Autódromo took to the street to protest against the City’s latest decree of eminent domain to list […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 23rd of last year, Eduarda La Rocque, president of the IPP–Instituto Pereira Passos, Rio’s city planning agency–was invited by the NGO Move Rio to give a talk on “The […]