Living steel

http://www.livingsteel.org/

what a beautiful area!

this is the view of Guanabara bay.
and there is an art museum, which seems to be made out of steel in that area.

This city is so pretty...

an interesting attempt to combat slums & violence

India offers firearms permits for vasectomies

Brazil's Traditional Beats Revamped In Rio

Struggles in Brazil's favelas mean newer styles of artistic creativity:

NPR Music

Energy Solutions

There are possibilities in biomass energy that could save money and alleviate burden of high energy bills and consumption during the world cup.
Below is a link to a site of a company located just outside of New York City that regenerates bio waste into energy.

http://www.taylorbiomassenergy.com/

Bolsa-Escola Program: http://are.berkeley.edu/~sadoulet/papers/BolsaEscolaReport6-6.pdf

This report illustrates why and how the Bolsa-Escola Program was created and implemented in Brazil, but failed. Some of the important points was that studies conducted proved that while enrollment increased, drop-out rate did not. There was no motivation to stay enrolled for an entire year even though mothers were get stipends if their children completed a years worth of education.

WHY?!?!

Perhaps because monetary rewards are not very important to young school children....so what about World Cup tickets?
For every "x" number of months a student stays enrolled with a "C" average, they will get "x" number of tickets?

Brazzil Magazine

This website offers hundreds of articles written by journalists who live Brazil. The articles address many valuable issues including why poverty still exists and the link(s) between EDUCATION and POVERTY...check it out

www.brazzil.com

Library of Congress: Brazil Statistics

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/brtoc.html#br0052

CIA World Factbook. Good starting point for demographic and geographic research

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html

NYC: comparison demographics

http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ny.html

NYC comparison demographics
:numbers have meanings depending on different situations...

Favelas in Rio de Janeiro - data and changes

http://www.citiesalliance.org/index.html

www.citiesalliance.org/doc/features/slum-electrification-workshop/favelas-rio.pdf -
(downlaod pdf file)

demographic changes, population growth, etc.

Slum creates its own web site

http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2075
www.vivafavela.com.br

Slum residents have their own web site and i think they are proud of their life probably!

"~Viva Favela, launched two years ago, has attempted to go beyond the stereotypical images of favelas by carrying more positive stories on slum life."
"There is so much happening in favelas that we don't know about, stories of courage and hope,"

Urban and Slum Trends in the 21st Century

http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue2/0206p24.htm

The State of the World's Cities Report 2006/7
(basic info: demographics / environment / income, job / health problems)

SLUM CITIES: A SHIFTING WORLD (Good images for favelas)

http://www.cbc.ca/correspondent/060507.html

Photo gallery for the favelas of Rio

Slum health: Diseases of neglected populations

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/7/2


Continued neglect of ever-expanding urban slum populations in the world could inevitably lead to greater expenditure and diversion of health care resources to the management of end-stage complications of diseases that are preventable. A new approach to health assessment and characterization of social-cluster determinants of health in urban slums is urgently needed.

"Paramilitary Games"

http://www.jstor.org/view/0094582x/di013101/01p0089w/0

This is a report published by the NACLA Report on the Americas investigating the emergence of paramilitary groups, or milicia, in the last decade. These groups have offered a "'third way between the state and the drug traffickers'" and have been supported by governing bodies of Rio, many of the favela dwellers, and the upper class. However, the report offers evidence of violence exhibited by the milicias, not unlike the violence caused by the gangs themselves. It ties this investigation into the economic stimulation that the Pan American Games provided in the greater Rio area.

Favelas and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio de Janeiro and New York City

http://www.jstor.org/view/0094582x/di013101/01p0089w/0


"This study is divided into 3 parts.
First, I kook at the historical factors affecting the settlement patterns of the poor, comparing the urban experience of blacks in the two countries and the socioeconomics factors influencing the initial formation of Favelas and ghettos in Rio de Janeiro and New York City.
Second, i identify the race and class characteristics of the two communities, linking these to their spatial configurations.
Finally, I compare patterns of political mobilization in favelas and ghettos."

I think it is quiet deep and comprehensive to consider about our project :)

Rio Bets on Pan Am Games for Fresh Start

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118419325588063859.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

2014 World Cup Stadiums

the following is a link to a site with the list and descriptions of all the stadiums scouted for the World Cup:

http://www.sports-venue.info/Brazil-2014/Main.html

Violence casts shadow over Brazil's 2014 World Cup (from The Guardian, UK, published Oct. 17, 2007)

Brazil, picked to stage the 2014 World Cup finals, is playing down the criminal violence that stalks its cities but the problem is sure to cast a shadow over preparations for the event. According to the Organization of Ibero-American States, Brazil has the world's fourth-highest murder rate with about 45,000 people killed each year, following Colombia, Russia, and Venezuela. Some cities, like Recife in the north-east, a possible World Cup venue, have homicide rates of around 80 per 100,000 people -- twice as high as the most violent cities in the United States. Older Brazilians say that when their country last hosted the tournament in 1950, they could sleep with doors and windows open. Nowadays, middle- and upper-class Brazilians lived in barred, fenced condominiums and apartment blocks, usually with closed-circuit television as an added deterrent to intruders.

Common crimes include hold-ups of local and long-distance buses, carjackings, and one known as "saidinha do banco" (leaving the bank) where the victim is followed out of the bank after making a withdrawal and then robbed. The victim of a "lightening kidnapping" is briefly abducted and forced to make cash withdrawls from ATMs.

Organized crime, revolving around lucrative drugs and arms trade, is an even bigger concern. Earlier [in October 2007], at least 12 people including a 4-year-old boy were killed in clashes between security forces and drug traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro slum. Drug traffickers control many of Rio's slums and battles with rival gangs or police often spill over to other parts of the city, sometimes closing main thoroughfares. But a FIFA inspection committee said after a visit in August that a $3.3 billion US dollars crime prevention plan launched earlier that month by the federal government would improve the situation. "This impressive program will help to reduce the current difficulties in certain areas of Brazil," its report said.

When Rio de Janeiro staged the Pan American Games in July, blanket policing, with patrol cars on almost every street corner, prevented any major incidents. Michel Misse, an urban violence expert at Rio de Janeiro Federal University, said it would be possible for Brazil to repeat the Pan American Games security scheme in 2014. "Many people had been saying the Pan American Games were going to be a security Pan-demonium, but they ran quite smoothly, without any major security problems," he said. About 18,000 police provided security during the games. A few weeks before the event, police staged a military-style raid in one of Rio's biggest slums in which 19 people were killed. But a repressive security does not solve the problem, said Julita Lemgruber, a security expert at Candido Mendes University. "I'm sure it'll be calm. The problem is that this only brings a short-lived halt to crime. When criminals see that the city is well-policed and they know it's temporary, they do keep a low profile, but it doesn't last. It works for big events with lots of visitors, but not for citizens who live here all the time." Asked about the issue after FIFA's decision to hold the world cup In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian Football Confederation president Ricardo Teixeira seemed unconcerned by the statistics. "Our problem with violence is no bigger than, nor no less than, other parts of the world. Violence happens in all big cities," he said. "If you go to major cities in the U.S., you see kids killing other kids in schools, at least we don't have that."