Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Cantagalo–Pavão–Pavãozinho is a neighborhood consisting of two favelas in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.It is located between Ipanema and Copacabana.In 2010, it had about 9,500 inhabitants.
Favelas will often lack utilities to begin with; in Rio de Janeiro most favela homes have running water and 99 per cent have electricity. [3] A famous example in Rio is Rocinha , where the 2010 census reported the population to be 70,000 and unofficial estimates put the real figure as high as 180,000. [ 3 ]