But for the past several years, Google and a Brazilian nonprofit calledAfroReggaehave been working to do something that might help break down barriers between the favelas and their surrounding areas: map them. The winding streets and alleys of Brazil’s favelas are tricky or impossible to travers...
Solid waste is one of the biggest problems in major cities around the world. Like other problems, it unequally affects black and low-income populations. In Brazil, it is no different. Favelas do not have sufficient public policies to truly address their.
Figure 1. Location of the highest incidences of ZIKV and microcephaly cases in Brazil (Brazil Map by Vemaps.com, accessed on 20 January 2022). There are a variety of terminologies used to describe and define informal settlements; in Brazil, favela or subnormal agglomeration are generally used...
map of Rio de Janeiro c. 1900Map of Rio de Janeiro (c.1900), from the 10th edition ofEncyclopædia Britannica.(more) When Rio de Janeiro, which had formerly been the capital of the empire, became capital of the republic of Brazil in 1889, it was already a considerablecommunity. At ...