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Resident Report: Gentrification Underway in Vidigal

By Rosa Batista • Translation by Emma Platais • January 22, 2014

Clique aqui para Português From Ipanema beach, I saw the hill that not many Cariocas or I had climbed. It was 2006 and I needed to live near my workplace, the aforementioned beach. Climbing the […]