Rio de Janeiro

Latitude:

-22.92

Longitude:

-43.33

Region Related Areas:

South America, Brazil

GeoNames ID:

3 451 190

Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm-Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil

by Nina Vieira, Patrick Hayes, and Al Matthews

Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 44

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Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase

Perspectives Issue 2019/2

Daniel Barber explores alternative visions of modernity in architectural projects in Brazil from the 1930s and 1940s that embraced, rather than excluded, climate.

Constructing and De-constructing Communities: Tales of Urban Injustice and Resistance in Brazil and South Africa

Perspectives Issue 2014/1

This article considers the parallels between the community of Lady Selborne, a township near Pretoria, South Africa, and the neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro.