The authorities think progress is demolishing our community just so they can host the Olympics for a few weeks,” said Cenira dos Santos, 44, who owns a home in the settlement, which is known as Vila Autódromo. “But we’ve shocked them by resisting.
Another chapter in the world-wide story of community dislocation led by gentrifying urban renewal. From today’s New York Times. Here is one the favelas discussed in the article on Google maps:
Source: The New York Times
Occasional comments and observations about happenings local and global, and not always about beer. Pete Morris has taught Geography at Santa Monica College in Southern California since 2000, and he is also a devoted homebrewer, bicyclist, soccer nut, Cal alum, husband, and father—not necessarily in that order.
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