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The Tragedy of the Maracanã Stadium

By Tom Winterbottom • June 13, 2014

Clique aqui para Português As a symbolic space in Rio de Janeiro, there is little to compare to the Maracanã stadium. Its history and position in the urban imagination is tightly linked to the cultural […]

Rio at a Crossroads: Cidade Nova and the ‘Porous City’ [BOOK REVIEW]

By Tom Winterbottom • December 6, 2013

Rio’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência, lies just 2km from Cidade Nova, known today mostly as the location of Rio’s City Hall. Soldiers returning in 1897 from the Canudos war in Brazil’s Northeastern state of […]