See inside this book by clicking here. Use your browser's back button to return to this page and continue shopping. The favelas of Rio de Janeiro are shantytowns that lack even the most basic infrastructure and services. The Favela-Bairro Project, featuring the work of Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects, seeks to turn these blighted areas into functioning neighborhoods, or bairros. Jáuregui's design initiatives include the construction of community centers offering recreational activities and job training, daycare facilities, communal kitchens, and new streets and pedestrian walkways. These projects facilitate movement within the favelas, create links to the city center, address health and environmental concerns, and taken collectively, improve the sociological and economic status of the favelas. Jáuregui has used architecture as a powerful tool for social reform and a means of integrating these informal communities with the rest of the city. Contents: Preface Peter Rowe Memoir of a Visit Rodolfo Machado Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects The Favela-Bairro Project Brooke Hodge Urbanism and Magical Realism Toshiko Mori Extreme Urbanism: Understanding the Importance of Complexity Elizabeth Mossop Acknowledgments: Rodolfo Machado Illustration Credits: Full Publication Title The Favela-Bairro Project, Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects The Sixth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Year Published: 2003, Harvard University Graduate School of Design Editor: Rodolfo Machado |
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