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The "Favela-Bairro" program, launched in 1993, sought to improve living standards for the favelados (Pamuk and Cavallieri 1998). The program provided basic sanitation services and social services, connected favelas to the formal urban community through a series of street connections and public spaces and legalized land tenure (Pamuk and ...
As president of IAB-RJ, Demetre collaborated with the Rio de Janeiro City Government through its then-Secretary of Planning, also an architect, Luiz Paulo Conde, on the development of the Favela-Bairro program, which promoted competitions for projects of interventions and improvements in over 300 favelas in the city. [7]
Composition of a unit of the Polícia Pacificadora (UPP), here on the occasion of the ceremony for the change of command of the units.. The Pacifying Police Unit (Portuguese: Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement and social services program pioneered in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which aims to reclaim ...
Known in English as City of God, Cidade de Deus is the eponymous name of a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives of petty crime during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the favela where Lins grew up. An English translation by Alison Entrekin was published in 2006.
Favela is a sequel to The Myth of Marginality (1976) as Perlman attempts to retrace the steps she took while living among favela residents between 1968 and 1969. She relates developments in Rio de Janeiro including the loteamentos, a vast community of squatter plots on the western outskirts of the city; and the conjuntos, characterized as cement apartment complexes built by the government to ...
Ilha das Cobras (favela), Recife; Ilha Joana Bezerra; Alto dos Milagres; Suvaco da Cobra; Linha do Metro — (also known as Coque) Entra a Pulso; Olinda. Comunidade V8; Ilha do Rato — (also known as Ilha do Santana) Ilha do Maruim
Panorama night image of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro. Geographically and socially, Rio de Janeiro is split into three zones. The Zona Sul (South Zone) is the smallest region, but contains Rio's tourist destinations and wealthy residents, [13] as well as notable attractions Ipanema and Sugarloaf mountain.
The program was implemented across all of Brazil between the years 2001 and 2003, until it was folded into the broader Bolsa Família program. Brazil is participating of the One Laptop Per Child project, [37] aiming at providing low cost laptops to poor children in developing countries, but the program is moving slowly.