Title: Case study - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Challenges and opportunities for urban areas - OCR - GCSE Geography Revision - OCR - BBC Bitesize
Headings: Case study - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Challenges and opportunities for urban areas
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Case study - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Social challenges
Migration
Housing
Transport
Education
Health care
Crime
Economic challenges
Environmental challenges
Social opportunities
Economic opportunities
Environmental opportunities
Sustainable strategies to improve the quality of life in the favelas

Content: Here, local residents are provided with building materials like concrete blocks and cement in order to replace home-made shelters with permanent dwellings. These are often three or four storeys high, and with water, electricity and sewage systems installed. Legal rights such as granting the favela residents rights to own their own properties. Low rents have also been offered. Transport systems have been extended to include the favelas to give residents the opportunity to travel to work in the city centre and industrial areas. Law and order has been improved in the favelas by trying to rid these areas of crime and drug abuse. Several large favelas have been improved in this way through federal 'Pacification Programmes'. New towns like Barra da Tijuca, built 20 kilometres along the coastline, have been built to relocate some residents from city favelas. previous
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