scholarly journals CONGESTION, URBAN TRANSPORT, THE FORMAL SECTOR AND INFORMAL ACTORS: KINGSTON, JAMAICA, AND RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRIANNA O. B. C. SELBY ◽  
CELSO ROMANEL
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Formal Sector

Urban mobility in the Olympic City: a "transportation revolution" in Rio de Janeiro?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Rodrigues Juciano Martins
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mega Sports Events ◽  
The City ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

In the next few years Brazil will receive the largest sum of investment in urban transport in the history of the country for the coming mega sports events. Theoretically, these investments should address the transport crisis that Brazilian cities are experiencing. The paper shows that the issue of transportation is present on the public agenda and in planning connected with mega events in strictly engineering terms. The ‘question of urban transportation' is introduced and a discussion is given of its connection with the preparation of cities for the mega sports events starting with Rio de Janeiro. Here the huge resources involved will probably have deep impacts on urban dynamics and on the socio-spatial configuration of the city without, however, providing solutions to the long standing transportation problems of the more vulnerable population groups.

scholarly journals Free and Unfree Labour and Ethnic Conflicts in the Brazilian Transport Industry: Rio de Janeiro in the Nineteenth Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (S22) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Cruz Terra
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
Economic Developments

AbstractOver the course of the nineteenth century, major changes transformed the transport of people and freight in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil during this period. These transformations involved both technological change, as transport evolved first from carriages and carts to horse-drawn trams and then to electric trams, as well as economic developments, such as the establishment of the first tram companies, many of which became important vehicles for foreign capital to enter Brazil. Although there has been extensive research from various angles into the changes undergone by the city's transport sector, there remains, however, a significant lacuna in the existing literature: the workers involved in that sector. The aim of this article is to analyse the workforce of the urban transport sector in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century, and to understand the labour that these workers provided, how they were affected by the transformations in the sector, and, at the same time, how they responded to those transformations. During this period, issues such as the connections between free and unfree labour, ethnic conflicts, and work regulation were very important in transport work in Rio de Janeiro, and they are explored in the text.

scholarly journals The Hill and the Asphalt: A 50-year perspective on informality in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Economic Segregation ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Hill

This article argues that informality is essential to urban vitality and that the ability of the formal sector to function depends upon the labour, consumer strength, social resilience, and intellectual capital of the people considered marginal. Based on the author’s 50 years of original fieldwork in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, she takes exception to the much-touted goal of ‘Cities without Slums’, contending that cities without slums are cities without soul. What should be eradicated is not informality, but poverty, inequality, and exclusion. Her research findings reveal what has changed in the case of Rio’s favelas, by following hundreds of families over four generations. She chronicles the evolution of favela policy from hostile to hopeful and back again – with the return of favela removal and the sabotaging of promising upgrading, public safety, and social projects. The result of policies over the last 20 years has been to increase spatial and socio-economic segregation, which in turn, has increased lethal violence. This trend has made vulnerability a chronic condition in informal communities in the south and precarious neighbourhoods in the north, eroding a sense of security and of self. The chapter concludes with the provocation to go beyond territorial place-based thinking to poverty-based remediation and rights-based approaches including the right to the city and the universal right to dignity for all.

Impact of age and schooling on performance on the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery: A study of elderly residents in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verônica C. Araujo ◽  
Christina M. B. Lima ◽  
Eduarda N. B. Barbosa ◽  
Flávia P. Furtado ◽  
Helenice Charchat-Fichman
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cognitive Screening ◽  
Screening Battery ◽  
The City

Insécurité civile : l’image de la violence à Rio de Janeiro

2010 ◽  
pp. 170-181
Author(s):  
Maria Izabel Oliveira Szpacenkopf
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro

Das Mammografie-Programm in Rio de Janeiro

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Rego ◽  
J Costa ◽  
A Mesquita ◽  
C Brasil ◽  
H Dohnann
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro

Frontier and Western History in Central Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-214
Author(s):  
Donald Worster
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Western History ◽  
Central Brazil

Frontier and Western History in Central Brazil Dutra e Silva, S. No Oeste, a terra e o céu: a expansão da fronteira agrícola no Brasil Central (Rio de Janeiro: Mauad X, 2017)

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