Rio de Janeiro

José L.S. Gámez is the Associate Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a founding member of the School’s Master of Urban Design program. His research explores cultural dimensions of architecture and urbanism, and it has appeared in The Journal of Urbanism and The Journal of Applied Geography, as well as the books Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China, Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, and Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment. Zhongjie Lin is an Associate Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former Director of the Master of Urban Design Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a co-founder of Futurepolis, an award-winning international design practice. His books include Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement and Vertical Urbanism, among others. He has received several prestigious awards for his research including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, an Abe Fellowship, and Graham Foundation grants. Jeffrey S. Nesbit is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and a research fellow in the Office for Urbanization. He is founding director of the experimental design group Haecceitas Studio and former director of Seoul Studio, a design research program in South Korea. His research focuses on the evolution of the urban landscape through the lens of historical technology, political uncertainty, and environmental unpredictability. He has written extensively on infrastructure and urbanization and is the editor of Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations.

List of Figures










Introduction




Jose Gamez, Zhongjie Lin, and Jeffrey Nesbit






The Impact of Future Sea-level Rise on Rio de Janeiro: A Geological Perspective




Scott Hippensteel






One Katrina Every Year: The Challenge of Urban Flooding in Tropical Cities




Fernando Lara






Changing Informality: Gentrification of Favelas in Rio de Janeiro




Zhongjie Lin, Fernando Moreira, and Aline Nascimento








Staging the City, Transforming the Slum: FestiFavelization in Rio de Janeiro




Malte Steinbrink and Jose Gamez






Barra da Tijuca: Urban Planning Challenges in a Global Suburb




Lawrence Herzog








Elite Enclave of Barra da Tijuca




Alexandra Silva de Almeida








Costa, Coast, and Clay: A Modern Grid Revisited in Rio de Janeiro




Jeffrey Nesbit








Barra Olympic Park Project: Notes on the Design Process, Games and Legacy




Henrique Houayek








Urban Projects for Resilience in Flooding Areas




Erika Brum Palma Pereira and Maria Fernanda Lemos








Mixing Modernisms: Urban Design in the Era of Climate Change




Jose Gamez








Climate Adaptation in Rio: Promoting the Resilience of the Western Zone Coastal Area of Rio de Janeiro Maria Fernanda Lemos









Urban Planning for Resilience: Lessons Learned from Projects for Rio’s Western Zone






Rafael Saraiva



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