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What you should know by the end of this lesson:
What you should know by the end of this lesson:
The management strategies put in place to reduce the problems created by housing in Rio
How to evaluate these strategies and discuss how effective they are.
Management Strategies
Management Strategies
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Using the information on this page and your notes to create a mind map to show the different solutions and how effective they have been
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Create a table to show the different solutions and how effective they have been
Choose at least 7 different strategies!
Self Help Schemes
Self Help Schemes
Local authorities provided tools and equipment for people to construct their own homes to a much higher quality. This improves housing quality but also saves money as expensive contractors are not required.
Low-interest loans can be offered for people to buy their home or afford the improvements to their home
Effective?
Effective?
Residents of improved favelas have developed new skills which they can teach to their children
greater sense of ownership, self-worth & community
Can be done in stages and is a low cost, so the government & locals can do it in small affordable steps
Unemployed or low pay workers cannot afford the loans needed in self-help schemes and so cannot improve their housing, leaving them in favelas long term
Site and Service - Favela Bairro Project
Site and Service - Favela Bairro Project
Favela Bairro (means slum to the neighbourhood) was a local authority controlled program. The local authority built brick houses with proper sanitation and infrastructure (hospitals, schools, and sports areas)
The residents were given the right to buy or rent their homes from the government. People who own their homes, tend to look after it more and have greater respect for the area they live in.
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Effective?
Effective?
The government now gets increased income from rent or purchases, which it can put towards further improvement projects
Anger as people feel they have been evicted from their homes, to make way for the new builds.
The government have over promised what will be available in these new projects, charging people too much money
Barra da Tijuca New Town
Barra da Tijuca New Town
This is a new city built along the coastal motorway 20km West of Rio (Where the Yellow Line Express goes to). It has 5km of shops, schools, hospitals, and offices, improving health care and education and improving quality of life.
Therefore, allowing people to work and live healthier lives away from the overcrowded favelas
High Rise Apartments
High Rise Apartments
Luxury accommodation and security guard protection attract the wealthy bringing increased money and investment into the area, which can attract other businesses and services.
Offered lots of low skilled jobs for people to earn money without any specific education or skills
The new town has been largely occupied by the more well off who were not living in poverty anyway.
Created new favelas that house the cleaners, housekeepers, cooks, and gardeners who work for the rich in the new town, widening the gap between rich and poor.
Pacification
Pacification
Armed police move into favelas to drive out criminal gangs this allows police to take over control. The secured favela is then supplied with schools, health centres and rubbish collection.
People live without fear or extortion
30 of Rio’s favelas have been pacified since 2008, benefiting 400,000 people
Many complain that crime has risen as drug gangs had previously controlled everything
including crime problems
Other Strategies
Other Strategies
Complexo De Alemao
Complexo De Alemao
An area that was pacified in 2010 and installed a cable system car (Teleferico do Alemao).
This allowed locals to get from one end of the favela to the other in 16 mins rather than 2 hours. Therefore, people could increase the area they could search for work and better-paid jobs.
Street Widening
Street Widening
Streets were widened In order for emergency services and waste collection vehicles to gain access easily. This saves lives and reduces smells but more importantly reduces the spread of disease.
Pipes and Cables
Pipes and Cables
Pipes are installed for clean water reducing the incidences of dysentery.
Cables for electricity allow lighting and heating for residents safely without the risk of fire.
Bus Services (& Other traffic improvements)
Bus Services (& Other traffic improvements)
Improved transport across the city allows more job opportunities to open up (especially low skilled jobs)
Links the apartments, shops, and leisure amenities. This makes them easily accessible and allows people to live further away from their place of work and leisure in perhaps better accommodation. Reduces money lost due to sitting in traffic.
General Impacts of the Changes
General Impacts of the Changes
Benefits
Benefits
Rocinha has 90% of its houses now made from concrete and brick, most have electricity, plumbing and sanitation. This has resulted in huge improvements in standards of living and health and wellbeing.
Continued Problems
Continued Problems
Continued urbanisation/population increase and the shape restrictions on space are the core cause of the problems which are not being tackled. So any solution is going to have limited or short term success.
Well done you have finished lesson 10 of Urban Environments
Well done you have finished lesson 10 of Urban Environments
Return to the topic launch page and attempt the lesson quiz
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