This engaging book explores how and why debates over Rio's historic landmarks and landscapes have defined both the city and Brazil. Godfrey explains how heritage designation and rebranding have shaped the city's sense of place. He convincingly shows how much the world can learn from Rio about conserving cultural heritage and urban environments.
This engaging book explores how and why debates over Rio's historic landmarks and landscapes have defined both the city and Brazil. Godfrey explains how heritage designation and rebranding have shaped the city's sense of place. He convincingly shows how much the world can learn from Rio about conserving cultural heritage and urban environments.
Preface 1 Uses of Memory: Preserving Whose Rio de Janeiro? Narratives of Historic Placemaking "Civilizing" Rio through Urban Design The "Land of the Future" Discovers Its Past Memory, Preservation, and Heritage Approaching Place Memory and Identity 2 Preservation Politics: Narrating a City and a Nation Postcolonial Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro Entrepreneurial Preservation November 15th Square: Placemaking on the Praça Adaptive Reuse of the Imperial Palace Reinvention and Continuity 3 Little Africa: Afro-Brazilian Heritage and Placemaking Counter-Memory and Cultural Reinvention Slave Port and Divided City Valongo Wharf: Making a World Heritage Site Little Africa and the African Heritage Circuit Community Identity and Cultural Politics 4 Resilient Favelas: Pride of Place, Heritage of Resistance Contested Origins: Invention of the Favela Favela Expansion, Removal, and Resistance Favela as Spectacle: "They Don't Care about Us" The Rise of "Favela Chic" Favelas: A New Urbanism? 5 Environmental Heritages: Defending Carioca Landscapes Carioca Landscapes: Making a World Heritage Site Tijuca National Park: One Park, Many Symbols Guanabara Bay: Conservation Turns to Environmental Justice Copacabana and Ipanema: Democratic Beaches? Environmental Heritages: Protecting Carioca Landscapes 6 Remembering Rio: The Politics of Memory Bibliography Index About the Author
Preface 1 Uses of Memory: Preserving Whose Rio de Janeiro? Narratives of Historic Placemaking "Civilizing" Rio through Urban Design The "Land of the Future" Discovers Its Past Memory, Preservation, and Heritage Approaching Place Memory and Identity 2 Preservation Politics: Narrating a City and a Nation Postcolonial Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro Entrepreneurial Preservation November 15th Square: Placemaking on the Praça Adaptive Reuse of the Imperial Palace Reinvention and Continuity 3 Little Africa: Afro-Brazilian Heritage and Placemaking Counter-Memory and Cultural Reinvention Slave Port and Divided City Valongo Wharf: Making a World Heritage Site Little Africa and the African Heritage Circuit Community Identity and Cultural Politics 4 Resilient Favelas: Pride of Place, Heritage of Resistance Contested Origins: Invention of the Favela Favela Expansion, Removal, and Resistance Favela as Spectacle: "They Don't Care about Us" The Rise of "Favela Chic" Favelas: A New Urbanism? 5 Environmental Heritages: Defending Carioca Landscapes Carioca Landscapes: Making a World Heritage Site Tijuca National Park: One Park, Many Symbols Guanabara Bay: Conservation Turns to Environmental Justice Copacabana and Ipanema: Democratic Beaches? Environmental Heritages: Protecting Carioca Landscapes 6 Remembering Rio: The Politics of Memory Bibliography Index About the Author
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