Bem-vindo a Santa Marta #001
Posted: December 8th, 2009 | Author: livia | Filed under: Rio de Janeiro | Tags: Brasil, favelas, Rio de Janeiro | No Comments »
About 1.3 million people live in more than 900 “favelas” in Rio de Janeiro.
Rich neighbourhoods co-exist next to the poorest slums, with a continuous visual relation, but without a social interaction. Favelas in the middle of the formal city are the best expression of the duality that is a peculiarity of Rio: heaven and hell, luxury and poverty. Rio is an emblematic example of a city that is the representation of spacial and social segregation inside the city itself.
Many social programs are promoted by local government (as Favela-Bairro Program, or PAC Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento) to improve the integration between this informal parts and the formal city, but a lot of critics and considerations to improve the reality of favelas can be done.
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