Favelas Have Doubled in 36 Years: What Does That Say About Brazil?
Recently, a number of articles have circulated in the Brazilian media reporting, with a mixture of wonder and reproach, the doubling in scale of the nation’s favelas [...]
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What can favelas teach us about bringing empathy home?
Join Catalytic Communities’ Executive Director, Theresa Williamson, and colleagues on September 25th in Denver at the Biennial of the Americas to discuss housing [...]
What is a Favela? [ANIMATED VIDEO]
July 19, 2016–Catalytic Communities launched ‘What is a Favela,’ a short animated educational video describing the historic and socio-cultural basics of [...]
CatComm Supports Critical Vox Video “2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see”
Catalytic Communities was thrilled to collaborate with the production of this critical 8-minute documentary viewed over 1.1 million times in two days on Facebook and 1.4 [...]
A Lawyer Responds: What is a Favela?
by Alex Ferreira Magalhães, Professor of Urban and Environmental Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The construction of the concept of a favela, specifically [...]
A Lawyer Responds: What is a Favela?
by Alex Ferreira Magalhães, Professor of Urban and Environmental Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The construction of the concept of a favela, specifically [...]
A Planner Responds: What is a Favela?
by Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and Executive Director of Catalytic Communities After fifteen years visiting favelas across Rio on a weekly [...]
A City Planner Responds: What is a Favela?
by Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and Executive Director of Catalytic Communities After fifteen years visiting favelas across Rio on a weekly [...]
2013 Rio Raffle: What’s the Prize?
As a thank you for supporting Catalytic Communities between August 2nd and September 7th, 2013, for every $15 donated we will enter you into our 2013 Rio Raffle to win the [...]
A City Planner Responds: What is a Favela?
by Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and Executive Director of Catalytic Communities After fourteen years visiting favelas across Rio on a weekly [...]