Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Leonardo Sodré in Portuguese published by O Globo click here. Six years after the storm, the calm is still far from arriving. Of the 3,200 families displaced in the […]
Clique aqui para Português Starting on Friday May 6, the last house standing on Praia do Sossego, a traditional fishing community on the ocean-facing side of Niterói, the city east of Rio de Janeiro in […]
Last week marked five years of Studio-X in Rio, a partnership between Columbia University’s Graduate School in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and the City of Rio de Janeiro. According to the Studio-X Rio website, […]
Clique aqui para Português On Sunday March 6, residents and social movement leaders at the Vito Giannotti Occupation in Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region held the third mutirão event to renovate the occupation space. Mutirão translates loosely to ‘collective […]
For more than six years Dr. Raquel Rolnik toured the world as Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the UN Human Rights Council, obtaining testimonials and observing the striking shift in the concept of housing […]