{"id":8358,"date":"2013-04-09T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:07:06","slug":"at-citys-request-google-carries-out-virtual-removals-rio-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=8358","title":{"rendered":"At City\u2019s Request, Google Carries Out Virtual Eviction on Rio&#8217;s Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0For original post in Portuguese on Comit\u00ea Popular do Rio click <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Zi8mzj\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Montagem: Renato Cosentino\" src=\"http:\/\/comitepopulario.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/mapa-favelas-rio_semlegenda.png?w=491&amp;h=592\" alt=\"Montagem: Renato Cosentino\" width=\"491\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Rio&#8217;s City government asked Google to reduce the presence of favelas on the map of Rio de Janeiro, the word \u201cfavela\u201d was practically eliminated from the map, replaced by \u201c<em>morro<\/em>,\u201d or hill. Some communities simply vanished. The image above compares an area of Rio Comprido in 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual removals are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/YfoFSD\" target=\"_blank\">city\u2019s plans to make poverty and the poor invisible<\/a>, in the virtual realm as well as in the real world, with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/p242P0\" target=\"_blank\">forced evictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u00a0For original post in Portuguese on Comit\u00ea Popular do Rio click here. After Rio&#8217;s City government asked Google to reduce the presence of favelas on the map of Rio de Janeiro, the word \u201cfavela\u201d was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=8358\" title=\"At City\u2019s Request, Google Carries Out Virtual Eviction on Rio&#8217;s Map\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8365,"comment_status":"closed","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":[335,1330,328,336],"tags":[11,838,254,778],"writer":[759],"translator":[508],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policies","8":"category-translation","9":"category-understanding-rio","10":"category-violations","11":"tag-forced-evictions","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-mapping","14":"tag-whats-a-favela","15":"writer-comite-popular-do-rio","16":"translator-rachel-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}