BY QUINN SMITH and OLAVO FRANCO BERNARDES — Brazil is a topic of extensive discussion and the growth of its economy has triggered a wave of interest and investment. In many ways, the internal workings of the Brazilian government remain a mystery. Brazil has a history of complex bureaucracy, which has led to the term […]
BY MARC R. POIRIER — This Essay is the first fruit of a project arising from observations made during a week-long study trip to Rio de Janeiro in July, 2010. It considers in a preliminary way some cultural resonances of a program of regularizing title (regularizacao) to dwellings in Rio’s favelas, comparing them to recent […]
BY ALAN M. WHITE — Brazil’s 1988 Constitution and 2001 City Statute explicitly adopt the concept of a right to the city articulated by French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. As residents of Rio de Janeiro’s informal self-constructed communities achieve success in their struggle for legalization and citizenship, they are confronted with the high market price of […]
BY CONSTANCE G. ANTHONY — In April of 2010, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, announced that two in-city, poor, and largely Afro-Brazilian neighborhoods, Morro dos Prazeres and Laboriaux, would be cleared and all inhabitants would be forced to move. Despite devastating winter storms, which had indicated again the precariousness of Rio’s hillside favelas, this […]
