The event will be promoted by the Institute for Urban Research at UPenn. Check out here for more on that!

Janice Perlman gave her talk at the panel called “Juxtaposing Latin American Urban Practices.”It was held by Latin GSAPP at Columbia University.

Janice Perlman, president and founder of the Mega-Cities Project, has visited Complexo da Maré, in Rio, to update her 50-year-long research on the local favelas.

Rio State legislators have passed a bill that mandates the official end of the UPP Program.

This week, the Guardian’s international news magazine goes inside the next generation of places with more than 10m inhabitants. Subscribe to The Guardian Weekly

This week, the Guardian’s international news magazine goes inside the next generation of places with more than 10m inhabitants. Subscribe to The Guardian Weekly

Recently, Favela translated in Persian was launched at a ceremony in Tehran attended by professors, students, authors, and authorities. Below are some photos of the event and the cover:  

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Janaína Mattos Alves, 35, saw her world crumble on the night of June 30, 2016. She was at home when the news arrived that her son Jhonata Dalber, 16, had been shot. “His friend arrived at my door desperately screaming, ‘They shot Dalber!’ I never thought that it would be the shot that killed my [...]

Bolsonaro, Witzel and Israel: Partners in Eradicating Crime from Favelas Jair Bolsonaro, and Rio de Janeiro's new governor Wilson Witzel, will be deploying new Israeli technology to battle ruthless street gangs that currently run much of Brazil's favelas. Brazil’s new right-wing administration will use thousands of cameras and weaponized drones to fight crime in [...]