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São Paulo: Rebel City
During illegitimate, corrupt president Michel Temer’s attempt to implement an unnecessary extreme austerity regime that plunged millions of people below the poverty line and …
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Urban Reformer: An interview with Erminia Maricato
Original version of article at COHA. Reproduced with permission. This interview was originally conducted in Portuguese, and translated by the author. Erminia Maricato is …
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Urban Policy & Public Participation in Brasil
Brasil has had some of the world’s most progressive city governments over the past 3 decades. For all the news on corruption spread by …
The Golpista Everyman & the “Clean” City
In October São Paulo voters went to the polls and threw out one of the World’s most progressive big city governments in favor of …
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Against Austerity: World Habitat Day
We are not against Dilma, but we are against this methodology she is using to throw her government into the service of savage capitalism. …
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Fighting Speculation and Gentrification, one Building at a Time
The centre of São Paulo is mainly comprised of commercial, office and abandoned buildings. Most of those who work there cannot afford the rent …
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A Brief Look at Brazilian Social Movements
Brazil currently has its most conservative Congress in decades. As violence against social movements increases and the criminalization of Brazilian social movements in the …
