For the original by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in Portuguese, published in O Globo, click here. An alley that stretches merely a meter wide in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela set the stage for a controversy involving works of the Growth […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (Tampa, FL. April 2014) An architect recently described the Morar Carioca […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Davison Coutinho published in Jornal do Brasil, click here. Major Priscila Azevedo, commanding officer of Rocinha’s Police Pacification Unit (UPP) has been promoted to commanding officer of the South […]
Clique aqui para Português President of the Organizing Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Carlos Nuzman recently remarked that “Rio 2016 is intensifying its relationship with society.” He continued, “The Games will leave a huge legacy for both […]
Last weekend, Columbia University’s Studio X – Carioca Center of Design hosted Entremeios, a series of conferences about lifestyles and creative practices in the city, inviting speakers from the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, anthropology and other social […]