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Vila Autódromo Unites in Protest Following Weeks of Pressure

By Catherine Osborn • July 23, 2013

Clique aqui para Português It is a chorus heard from favela activists across the city, louder in these recent weeks of protest, but it still rings with a special weight coming from the Vila Autódromo […]

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Waiting for Santa Claus: Asa Branca and the Contradictions of Rio’s Urban Transformation

By Matthew Richmond • December 21, 2012

Clique aqui para Português December 15th–I had taken just a few steps down Rua Asa Branca when Bezerra’s familiar voice rang out. The Resident Association’s inimitable president was sitting in a barbershop, his face covered […]

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After Prepped for Morar Carioca, Vila União de Curicica May Face Complete Eviction

By Catherine Osborn • December 13, 2012

Clique aqui para Português Residents of Vila União de Curicica, a Jacarepaguá community until 2011 targeted to receive public upgrading projects as part of the Morar Carioca program, now hope dialogue with the Rio de […]

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In Morar Carioca Prep, iBase Collects Oral Histories and Video of Asa Branca

By Catherine Osborn • December 7, 2012

Clique aqui para Português “We’re making Asa Branca: The Movie here!” shouted Carlos Alberto “Bezerra” Costa, president of the Asa Branca Residents Association, as a passerby looked quizzically at the film team spread across a […]

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Curicica Weighs in on Morar Carioca Roles and Obligations

By Catherine Osborn • October 10, 2012

Clique aqui para Português Last Monday night in Curicica, Jacarepaguá, in Rio’s West Zone, Carlos Brandão held up three blue circles cut from construction paper. “City government,” he announced to the thirty people seated encircling […]

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