{"id":4222,"date":"2012-07-04T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2016-02-11T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:18:32","slug":"between-mountains-and-sea-rios-favelas-are-a-world-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=4222","title":{"rendered":"Between Mountains and Sea Rio’s Favelas are a World Heritage Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Raquel Rolnik,\u00a0Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing,\u00a0in <\/em>click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rio is the first city designated a World Heritage site based on its urban cultural landscape (Photo: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cultural Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the body that designates monuments and other historic places as World Heritage Sites, this Sunday (July 1) recognized the cultural landscape of Rio de Janeiro as a World Heritage Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In its application to UNESCO, Brazil\u2019s National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan) outlined the area from Copacabana, in the city\u2019s South Zone, to the far west of Niter\u00f3i, encompassing the Tijuca hills. The area includes Corcovado, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tijuca National Forest, Flamengo Park, and the entire built and natural landscape of the region.<\/p>\n

Although not specifically mentioned, historic Rio favelas such as Santa Marta and Babil\u00f4nia are included in the zone, as part of what the dossier calls a \u201ccomplex cultural landscape produced by the interactions between different cultures in association with a unique natural site.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time that the committee has recognized the way in which a space is constructed, occupying a distinctive geography, as a heritage site. This breaks with colonialist criteria and opens the idea of heritage as a wide range of contributions to the land, such as the fantastic urban projects of public walkways, the sidewalks of Copacabana and Flamengo Park, conceived by Glaziou, Burle Marx and Affonso Reidy, as well as the day-to-day construction of a city in dialogue with the sea and mountains.<\/p>\n

Nothing has a stronger presence in this landscape than the favelas, a space where millions of Rio natives and newcomers produce their own lives; and who, in the face of a city that excludes them and despite the riskiness of methods, create a place of stability and belonging as contradictory and complex as its relation to the city. Now this space is protected \u2013 internationally \u2013 and its geography of puxadinhos<\/em> and small lots should be recorded and consolidated in legislation that recognizes rights, protecting the space from arbitrary removals and spurious projects.<\/p>\n

The challenge now for all of us \u2013 residents, heritage bodies, government, urban planners \u2013\u00a0is how to consolidate these favelas amidst the real-estate hurricane battering Rio de Janeiro, which will only gain intensity with this recognition as World Heritage Site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Raquel Rolnik,\u00a0Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing,\u00a0in click here. The Cultural Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the body that designates monuments and other historic places […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1271,335,329],"tags":[543,504,223,197,66,542,489,541,540],"writer":[47],"translator":[508],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-favelaqualities","8":"category-policies","9":"category-solutions","10":"tag-corcovado","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-favela-as-a-model","13":"tag-morro-da-babilonia","14":"tag-santa-marta","15":"tag-sugarloaf","16":"tag-tijuca-forest","17":"tag-unesco","18":"tag-world-heritage","19":"writer-raquel-rolnik","20":"translator-rachel-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}