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Vila Autódromo: Resistance Symbol in the Olympic Village
The preparation processes for the FIFA World Cup in 12 Brazilian cities has generated impacts in many areas. One of the most common violations has been the mandatory relocation of inhabitants to create...
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The Owners of Rio
The rights violations generated by different interventions into the city and the state and which are responsible for a deliberate "gentrification," are prime examples for the failure of governments to...
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Recife May Need to Watch the Cup from Afar
At Boa Viagem beach, the beach with the most tourists in Recife, signs warn the swimmers about the danger of shark attacks. This is a recent problem. The coastal ecosystem's degradation since the 1990s...
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Who Is the Cup For? Expenses in the World Cup 2014
IntroductionFifty years after the historic 1950 World Cup, Brazil will again host the greatest event in soccer. It should be a time of joy for Brazilians, a unique opportunity to celebrate one of its...
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Removals – Resistance Comes from Residents
Manoela Vianna, press officer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil, met Antonieta Rodriguês, former resident of Campinho, a community located in Madureira, north of Rio de Janeiro City, for an...
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We were not invited to the party: Women and the World Cup
In 2011, Ângel, Elisangela Sena's 17-year-old daughter, was visited by city workers and men from the Municipal Guard. The reason was that their house, on Pavão-Pavãozinho hill, in the south of Rio de...
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Sporting Homeless
About a hundred athletes, coaches, and activists gathered early morning in front of Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro for a spontaneous race of two laps around the sporting facility. Among them were...
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To whom does the regulation of prostitution serve?
In Brazil, prostitution regulation is once again under discussion. What was, and remains, at stake in the proposals, is the legalization of pimps and sex entrepreneurs. The legislation proposed by...
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ASEAN Economic Integration and Sustainable Urbanisation
Southeast Asian cities will play a critical role in the unfolding of the ASEAN Economic Community, which is to be launched at the end of 2015. A discussion of the inter-linkages among economic growth,...
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The Toxic Water of Flint
Engulfed in an environmental scandal about lead-contaminated drinking water, the city of Flint, Michigan, has come to epitomize the decrepit state of America’s infrastructure, environmental racism, and...
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Editorial: Behind the Rio Games
Barbara Unmüßig correlates the Olympics with Brazil’s institutional, political and economic crisis. Did the organizers learn a lesson from the World Cup in 2014?The city of Rio de Janeiro is once again...
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Marketing and Promotion, instead of Transparency for the Games
In spite of the maxim transparency and laws requiring free access to information the municipality of Rio de Janeiro owns a lot of information on the Olympic Games.In Rio, it is easy to run into...
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Guanabara: the river that runs through our village
Thanks to superficial cleaning measures plastic waste will probably not disturb the Olympic Sailing Competitions in the Guanabara Bay. A long-term restoration of the bay, however, stays indispensable...
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Rio 2016: The exclusion games
With the Olympics Rios city limits are shifted: Instead of fostering the wealth of the population, the municipality opens the way for speculation in real estate.Dominated by private companies the...
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Interview with Shivani Chaudhry: "There is a global housing crisis"
India has the largest number of homeless and landless persons in the world, as well as the greatest number of urban and rural poor. But also in the global north, the world is witnessing increased...
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Housing and the city: Local public action in Barcelona
Housing problems are particularly eminent in megacities of the global South. But they also exist n Northern industrialized countries. Spain is an extreme case. In the city of Barcelona, one can observe...
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Coproducing sustainable cities: Making sure “no-one is left behind”
Why communities want to co-produce with the state? The experience of communities in the global south is that it is important not to pass over responsibility to the state, because if citizen’s...
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Habitat III: New Urban Agenda and the importance of civil society
Close on the heels of the UN adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 the HABITAT III conference offers the international community a timely opportunity to revisit and...
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How the Skopje 2014 project ate the urban commons
The Skopje2014 urban reconstruction project is the biggest infrastructure investment in the entire Macedonian history. This video delineates the costs and presents the corruptive machinations behind...
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Habitat III: Co-producing Sustainable Cities?
The Conference "Co-producing Sustainable Cities?" addressed the conditions for sustainable urban development. This was the look specifically on the relationship between civil society and City...
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