Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro
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Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro

Development, Segregation, and Governance

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro

Development, Segregation, and Governance

About this book

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades. It analyses urban dynamics within the metropolis and its relationship with Brazilian urban networks.

This book is written by researchers from the Brazilian Metropolitan Observatory in Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to study urban transformation and stagnation with regards to urban mobility and infrastructure, social analysis of territory, housing and housing market, metropolitan governance, demography, residential segregation and inequality of opportunities, among other topics.

Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319518985
eBook ISBN
9783319518992
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. About the Authors
  5. 1 Metamorphoses of the Urban Order of the Brazilian Metropolis: The Case of Rio de Janeiro
  6. Territory, Economy and Society
  7. 2 Productive and Spatial Changes
  8. 3 Spatial Transformations
  9. 4 Social Transformations
  10. 5 Demographic Transformations
  11. 6 Family Transformations
  12. Segregation and Inequalities
  13. 7 Segregation and Population Displacement
  14. 8 Segregation and Real Estate Production
  15. 9 Segregation and Occupational Inequalities
  16. 10 Segregation and Educational Inequalities
  17. 11 Segregation and “Racial” Inequalities
  18. Citizenship, Public Policy and Metropolitan Governance
  19. 12 The Favela in the City-Commodity: Deconstruction of a Social Question
  20. 13 Political Culture, Citizenship, and the Representation of the Urbs Without Civitas: The Metropolis of Rio de Janeiro
  21. 14 Local Democracy and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of Rio de Janeiro
  22. 15 Entrepreneurial Governance: Neoliberal Modernization
  23. 16 Transport Management: The Renovation of the Road Pact
  24. Appendix 1: Rio de Janeiro: A Presentation of Its Spatial Divisions
  25. Appendix 2: Social-Occupational Categories of Observatório das Metrópoles

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