Favela:Paisagem Cultural

Contradições vividas nas favelas da Babilônia e Chapéu Mangueira no contexto de grandes eventos e do Programa Morar Carioca Verde.

Abstract

The pre-olympics years in Rio were intensive and combined a series of iniaciatives to promote the city in the “citymarketing” context, with approach on the exaltation of the landscape, reconized by UNESCO in 2012 as world heritage and in the dissemination of good practices in urban sustainability that were being implemented. The article seeks to reflect on the role of the slums of Rio de Janeiro, or at least part of them, which, since the occupation of the Pacifying Police Units, underwent accelerated changes, being integrated with the city’s tourist and cultural circuits. We will use the Slums of Babylon and Chapéu Mangueira as reference, for the ecological identification and for the innumerable initiatives that happened there in a short time, calling attention to the contradictions of a public management that praises its slums as aesthetic and cultural environment but that does not dive, in fact, in solving their problems.
Key-words: Slums, Cultural Landscape, Urban Sustainability, Tourism