The legacy of mega events : urban transformations and citizenship in Rio de Janeiro / Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro, Filippo Bignami, editors ; with contributions by Ana Paula Soares Carvalho [and three others].
This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events. The case of Rio de Janeir...
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Cham, Switzerland :
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[2020]
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| Series: | Latin American studies book series.
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Table of Contents:
- Part. I. Introduction
- Part II. Context
- Chapter 1. The sporting mega-events inside the neoliberal experiment of urban development
- Chapter 2. Rio de Janeiro economic crisis and austerity reponses
- Chapter 3. From the dream of "new middle class" to the new urban poverty
- Chapter 4. The political crisis: urban entrepreneurship without a leader class
- Part III. Facts and reasons of the failures
- Chapter 5. Decomposition of the public security system
- Chapter 6. De-gentrification, urban sprawl and social racism
- Chapter 7. Decomposition of the urban mobility system
- Chapter 8. From the promise of integration to the legacy of exclusion: Policies for favelas in Rio de Janeiro (2007
- 2017)
- Chapter 9. Porto Maravilha: The defeat of the real estate-financial model
- Chapter 10. Porto Maravilha: Decomposition of the coalition and repositioning of public agents
- Part IV. Reconstruction of city project. Resistance and new ways
- Chapter 11. The experience of tenement houses as forms of resistance in Downtown
- Chapter 12. Experiments of counter-hegemonic coalitions
- Chapter 13. cultural policies in dispute; spaces of possibilities in front of Porto Maravilha
- Conclusion.