For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
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A Rio de Janeiro, près du quartier prestigieux de Leblon, non loin des plages réputées de Copacabana et d'Ipanema une cité fait tache : la Cruzada Sao Sebastiao. Il s'agit de…
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A billion people, almost half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for over a century…
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
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"Qu'est-ce qu'une favela ? Quelle est la nature juridique de ce morceau de ville ? Quel est le statut de ses occupants ? Sur ce débat ancien qui interroge la place des favelas et des favelados…
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Le Brésil semble avoir définitivement pris le chemin d’une certaine modernité, mais les problèmes de violence dans les favelas continuent d’alarmer l’opinion et…
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Séminariste rebelle, rétif aux discours de l’Église qui confie le sort des pauvres à Dieu, Joaquim Melo décide de vivre dans ce que les Brésiliens appellent…
Abstract from the publisher : In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic urban planning,…
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…