What Is a Favela? Five Things to Know About Rio's So-Called Shantytowns

While it's a word that has been attached to crime and poverty, these working-class shantytowns are seeing a resurgence as well.
While it's a word that has been attached to crime and poverty, these working-class shantytowns are seeing a resurgence as well.
This is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics

WPHNA World Public Health Nutrition Association

Killings Rise In Rio's Favelas As Controversial Police 'Pacification' Effort Stalls

Aadityasai Kalyankar - Urban Stations (pdf) - CliffsNotes

Google 'removes word favela' from Rio maps

How a Brazilian Public Housing Project Became an Unplanned Neighborhood

Every Question You Have About Rio de Janeiro Answered

Once Unsafe, Rio's Shantytowns See Rapid Gentrification : Parallels : NPR

Against the odds! 13 Houses Campaign - Famvin Homeless Alliance

Media Mentions, Catalytic Communities

BBC News - Around six percent of Brazil's population live in favelas or shanty-towns. Discover life in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's largest favela, with up to 180,000 residents: #bbcgofigure

Favela, Definition, History, & Facts

Rio de Janeiro is making the first digital map of one of Brazil's largest favelas

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City 113892878X, 9781138928787