Clique aqui para Português Orlando “Folha Seca” (Dry Leaf) Pereira da Silva, the first gardener to be formally employed by Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Gardens, died on June 1 at the age of one hundred. […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a three-part series on the history of the Projeto Rio urban renewal program in Maré, from 1979 to 1981. Efficient resistance on the part of Maré’s […]
Clique aqui para Português The new mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, is now in his fifth month in office. Crivella has guaranteed that his goals will be met on schedule by the end of 2020–but some […]
Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, March 11, community members joined together to commence a weekend of awareness and artivism in Camorim, an urban quilombo in Jacarepaguá, an area in the West Zone of Rio de […]
For the original by Silvana Bahia in Portuguese for Observatório de Favelas click here. The strengthening of the idea of the city as a place to meet and exchange ideas has spurred the formation of […]