To many of those unfamiliar with them, Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—dense urban settlements of cheap, sometimes illegally built dwellings and shops—are objects of fear and curiosity. Outsiders associate these neighborhoods with extreme poverty, drugs and crime, and rarely visit, though they housenear...
The data on these 750 people and their communities provided the basis for my doctoral dissertation, "The Impact of Urban Experience," and after follow-up work in 1973, the research was also incorporated into my book, The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. ...
Rio de Janeiro - Carnival, Beaches, Favelas: As the country’s cultural capital, Rio de Janeiro has many prestigious artistic, literary, and scientific institutions. These include the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and n
The favelas house 16% of the population, totalling nearly 0.4 million people, living in 509 communities [23]. The Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro has a total population of 13.544 million [24]. There are a total of 2990 favelas in Rio de Janeiro [25,26], and in common with ...